Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, when the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from its: the plague doctor. Robe in a long, horrific coat of greased cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, he was a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. Their masks, often equipped with peepholes, were thought to filter the a

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