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Plague doctors
Doctors
strange-looking man
covered from head to toe
Beak-like mask filled with herbs and compounds
Wizard-like robe = oiled leather robe
Early 17th century
Hood with crystal eyepieces
Boots
Gloves
The Plague
3 different pandemics
From 6th to the 19th century
Swept across large parts of Afro-Eurasia
Tens millions of people died
One of the most terrifying and destructive diseases
Aka the Black Death
Symptoms
muscles = weak
Lymph nodes in neck + armpits
Head pounds
Fever
Boby racked with chills
Treatments
Concoctions and antidotes
Bloodletting + cupping + cautery
Until 20th century = no treatment
Common thought
Bad air = reason of the Plague = miasma
Emanating from swamps, dead carcasses, dead plants
True culprit
Tiny flea
From animals to humans and vice versa