Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In this grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, during the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from its: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of waxed cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, it emerged a omen of both fear and illusory hope. Their masks, frequently featuring glass, were imagined to filte

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