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  2. Plague doctor costume - Wikipedia

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    The costume is also associated with a commedia dell'arte character called Il Medico della Peste ('The Plague Doctor'), who wears a distinctive plague doctor's mask. [37] The Venetian mask was normally white, consisting of a hollow beak and round eye-holes covered with clear glass, and is one of the distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of ...

  3. Plague doctor - Wikipedia

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    The beaked plague doctor inspired costumes in Italian theater as a symbol of general horror and death, though some historians insist that the plague doctor was originally fictional and inspired the real plague doctors later. [26] Depictions of the beaked plague doctor rose in response to superstition and fear about the unknown source of the plague.

  4. Hazmat suit - Wikipedia

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    Plague doctor wearing a plague doctor costume A radiographer wearing an early hazmat suit in 1918 during World War I.. An early primitive form of the hazmat suit arose during bubonic plague epidemics, when European plague doctors of the 16th and 17th centuries wore distinctive costumes consisting of bird-like beak masks and large overcoats while treating victims of the bubonic plague. [1]

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  7. John Paulitious - Wikipedia

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    John Paulitious (died June 1645) was Edinburgh's first plague doctor. [1] [2] [3] He died in June 1645 of bubonic plague within weeks of tending the sick. [3]At the time, there was a severe epidemic of this disease in Edinburgh; [1] it's believed that there were only about 60 men around to defend the city at the height of the epidemic.

  8. So Long at the Fair - Wikipedia

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    It turns out he was taken very ill that first night. He rang the bell for assistance. The hotel front desk summoned a doctor who diagnosed bubonic plague. [5] Fearful that news of a case of plague would be disastrous for the Exposition, Madame Hervé and the doctor whisked Johnny away in secrecy to a rundown Parisian hospital.

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