Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In this grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, during the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from its: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of oiled cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, it became a symbol of both fear and fleeting hope. They masks, regularly featuring peepholes, were believed to filter th

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