Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, during the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from its: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, horrific coat of greased cloth and a alarming mask fashioned from leather, it was a omen of both fear and illusory hope. These masks, frequently bearing glass, were imagined to filter the mia

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