Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, when the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of waxed cloth and a unusual mask constructed from leather, it became a symbol of both fear and temporary hope. They masks, frequently equipped with glass, were imagined to fi

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