Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In the grim epoch of ravaging 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 illusory hope. Their masks, frequently bearing peepholes, were thought to filter

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