Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, when the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from the: the plague doctor. Robe in a long, bizarre coat of greased cloth and a alarming mask designed from leather, he was a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. Their masks, often equipped with peepholes, were imagined to filter the air

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