Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, during the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, horrific coat of greased cloth and a alarming mask constructed from leather, they emerged a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. They masks, often equipped with peepholes, were believed t

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