Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In the grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, as the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from the: the plague doctor. Robe in a long, macabre coat of greased cloth and a unusual mask designed from leather, they was a representation of both fear and fleeting hope. They masks, regularly equipped with peepholes, were thought t

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