'I am a historian of pandemics. And yes, Halloween is my favorite holiday because I get to wear my plague doctor costume, complete with a beaked mask.'
, a precursor of modern personal protective equipment. So, sadly, my own plague doctor Halloween costume has nothing to do with the Black Death pandemic itself.
Paul Fürst, engraving, c. 1721, of a plague doctor of Marseilles, introduced as ‘Dr Beaky of Rome.’ His nose-case is filled with herbal material to keep off the plague. Even the term Black Death is a 19th-century invention; none of the medieval witnesses wrote of a “Black Death” or The living legacy of this Gothic epidemiology still defines scholarly and popular understanding of plague and may creep into today’s Halloween costumes and decorations.Pandemics never mean death and suffering for all. There is strong evidence that Black Death survivors experienced
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