(Today, you might recognize it from the “plague doctor” costumes worn ... them that their silly-looking mask isn't technically a part of the Black Plague's lasting legacy (even if it is ...

The beaked mask wasn’t just for show—it was packed with herbs to ward off “bad air.” Underneath it? One of the most haunting ...

Plague doctors filled their masks with theriac ... which killed up to 10,000 people a day circa A.D. 561; the Black Death, which wiped out up to a third of Europeans between 1334 and 1372 and ...

wearing goggles and beaked masks. The plague doctor costume looks like a cross between a steampunk crow and the Grim Reaper, and has come to represent both the terrors of the Black Death and the ...

With their dark, heavy robes and beaked masks, the plague doctor will forever be associated ... nearly 300 years after the Black Death ripped through Europe and killed up to 60 percent of the ...

Also called 'Black Death' and 'Pestilence' and ... distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like nose extending about six inches ...

Even then, masking was controversial, notes Winston Black, a medieval medicine and religion historian at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. “Our earliest evidence of plague masks already ...

Believing the plague spread through miasma, or bad air, doctors wore elaborate costumes with beak-like masks filled with aromatic substances to protect themselves. Also called 'Black Death' and ...