Black Plague Doctor Costume
The bubonic plauge also known as the black death killed at least 75 million people on three continents.
Black plague doctor costume. The costume is also associated with a commedia dellarte character called il medico della peste the plague doctor who wears a distinctive plague doctors mask. A plague doctor was a medical physician who treated victims of the bubonic plague. In times of epidemics such physicians were specifically hired by towns where the. The plague doctor is arguably one of the most enigmatic figures to have emerged from the middle ages.
These were european physicians who specialised in treating. History history of black death the black death. The first cases of bubonic plague or black death were discovered in the 14th century and it is the most devastating. Discover the unique items that tombanwell creates.
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