The Bubonic ... plague was being spread by birds. (We now know that rats and fleas were responsible for spreading the Black Death.) The doctors may have thought that dressing up in a bird-like gas ...

THE bubonic plague wiped out ... on the continent, where the plague raged for decades before reaching British shores. Sadly there were no bird masks or protection for the hundreds - if not ...

In the 17th century, people believed these outfits could purify poisonous air. They were wrong. During the 17th-century European plague, physicians wore beaked masks, leather gloves, and long ...

In Italy and France during the 17th century, the plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of the bubonic plague. He would dawn a plague mask which usually resembled the face of a white ...

doctors wore elaborate costumes with beak-like masks filled with aromatic substances to protect themselves. Also called 'Black Death' and 'Pestilence' and 'Great Mortality', the Bubonic plague ...

Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in ... chipmunks and wood rats can carry plague as well as other rodents, and so people with bird and squirrel feeders ...