Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In the grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, when the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from the: the here plague doctor. Clad a long, bizarre coat of waxed cloth and a unusual mask designed from leather, he became a omen of both fear and temporary hope. They masks, often equipped with peepholes, were imagined to filter th

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