Also called 'Black Death' and 'Pestilence' and ... distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like nose extending about six inches ...

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Even then, masking was controversial, notes Winston Black, a medieval medicine and religion historian at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. “Our earliest evidence of plague masks already ...

Guests will be transported back to the 17th century during the tour with stories on how the Black Death ravaged ... of the now-iconic plague doctor’s beaked mask, an early form of protective ...

During the Bubonic plague in the Middle Ages, some European doctors wore beak-like masks to protect against ... in his book Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.

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