Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of devastating pestilence, during the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from the shadows: the plague doctor. Clad a long, macabre coat of greased cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, he was a omen of both fear and illusory hope. They masks, often bearing eyes, were imagined to filter the mias

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