DESPITE it coming to an end 351 years ago, memories of the Black Death still haunt England ... saw doctors wearing the now iconic 'beak masks'. These bird like facial coverings featured a huge ...

(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 mask, the plague would be transferred from the ...

To safeguard themselves against miasma, as they called this harmful air, doctors donned a curious accessory while treating sickly patients: a mask with ... in part to the Black Death, which ...

Black Mask will be the villain in the upcoming Birds of Prey movie ... for good in 2011 after DC's New 52 reboot wiped his death out of continuity. Most recently, Black Mask has been shown ...

From the Black Death to the Present. “A wide-brimmed hat could defend the head, and a mask with a protruding beak extending from the nose could carry aromatic herbs that would protect the wearer ...

While it may seem silly today, when Hippocrates defined the four humors—blood, black bile ... the plague doctor more with death than healing. The mask, with its skull-like visage, certainly ...

Birds of Prey's Black Mask explained. Introduced back in 1985, Black Mask is the criminal alter ego of one Roman Sionis, the son of two wealthy Gotham socialites and heir to the Janus Cosmetic ...