Plague Doctor – The Mask That Feared the Air. Posted: June 2, 2025 | Last updated: June 2, 2025. The beaked mask wasn’t just for show—it was packed with herbs to ward off “bad air.” ...

Plague Doctor Meets Bird of Paradise: ... “I wanted to explore the 2020 version of those scary plague-doctor masks,” he says. ... green, red—separated by black toothlike gnashes.

Plague doctors filled their masks with theriac, a compound of more than 55 herbs and other components like viper flesh powder, cinnamon, myrrh, and honey.

Why Plague Doctors Wore Strange Masks. It’s the beak that lends the attire of the medieval plague doctor its surreal quality, ... Revealing the Stunning 2.33-Carat Winston Red Diamond ...

Long ago, European physicians believed that "bad air" caused illnesses—scientists like Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister hadn’t yet delivered scientific proof of the germ theory of ...

While the plague doctors of the 17th century certainly had a scary getup, de Lorme’s miasma-inspired leather overcoat and bird mask didn’t prevent anyone from contracting the plague.

With their dark, heavy robes and beaked masks, the plague doctor will forever be associated with the bubonic plague, even though they first appeared in France and Italy in the 1600s, nearly 300 ...

She says one particular mask is selling big this fall. “That plague doctor mask with the pointy nose, it’s brown,” Cameron says. “Of course, plague says it all, so I think they just want ...

A 1619 outbreak of plague in France, rooted largely in Paris, led to the first medical mask. As the disease killed some 80 percent of those it afflicted, French doctor Charles De Lorme invented an ...

BEAK EXPERIENCE From left: An ‘antipollution mask’ from Marine Serre’s fall 2020 collection; a 17th-century plague doctor in his protective mask; a mesh cover from Louis Vuitton’s spring ...