(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Take it from me, there’s nothing like a stylish, historical plague doctor’s mask to spice up your love life. Slap on a couple of these babies, then show up at random mansions wearing black ...

One of the most distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of Venice is “Il Medico della Peste,” or “The Plague Doctor.” But the distinctive bone-white mask and black clothing was actually ...

At one point it was used as part of a medieval hazmat suit for doctors attempting to treat victims of the bubonic plague during Europe's "Black Death" era way back in the 1300s. Now, the mask is ...

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 ...

He would dawn a plague mask which usually resembled ... costume was in fact used frequently by plague doctors, according to historian Winston Black it is doubtful that de Lorme was the inventor ...

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 ...

In your feverish state, you see a strange-looking man wearing a beak-like mask ... you have the plague. So, where did these iconic outfits come from? Stephanie Honchell Smith explores the history of ...