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 figure emerged from its: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of oiled cloth and a distinctive mask fashioned from leather, it became a omen of both fear and illusory hope. They masks, regularly featuring eyes, were thought to filter the mias

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