However the most distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like nose extending about six inches, filled with aromatic substances.

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A 1619 outbreak of plague in France, rooted largely in Paris, led to the first medical mask. As the disease killed some 80 percent of those it afflicted, French doctor Charles De Lorme invented an ...

During the Bubonic plague in the Middle Ages, some European doctors wore beak-like masks to protect against “miasma”, what they called air pollution linked to rotting matter and bad smells.

A protective mask used by doctors during the 17th century when they called on patients suffering from the plague. The quality of air was also blamed for the spread of plague - bad, stinking air ...

The tour also delves into the gruesome medical practices of the time, from the use of red-hot pokers to treat buboes to the introduction of the now-iconic plague doctor’s beaked mask ...

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