plague mask
Doctor's beak covering
A plague mask is the beaked face covering worn by plague doctors in 17th-century Europe, stuffed with aromatic herbs and spices thought to protect against disease.
The long beak, round glass eye holes, and dark hood create a distinctive and unsettling silhouette that has become iconic in horror imagery and carnival costumes: The Venice festival was full of plague masks.
- beakHorny avian mouthpart
- doctorLicensed medical healer
- bubonicOf groin-node swellings
- VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
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- Black DeathBlack Death, buboes, Yersinia pestis, fleas, rats
- old medicinebloodletting, leeches, leech therapy, leeching, cupping
- plague historyBlack Death, Yersinia pestis, buboes, mass graves, lazaretto
- plaguesBlack Death, pestilence, pandemic, epidemic, buboes
- historical sanitationcesspit, cesspool, chamber pot, latrine, outhouse
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Protective medical face covering
sterile gloves · surgical scrubs · stethoscope · hazmat suit · disposable gown
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Winged rod with coiled snakes
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