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The Genevan physician, Jean-Jacques Manget, in his 1721 work Treatise on the Plague written just after the Great Plague of Marseille, describes the costume worn by plague doctors at Nijmegen in 1636–1637. The costume forms the frontispiece of Manget's 1721 work. [29] Their robes, leggings, hats, and gloves were also made of Morocco leather. [30]
A plague doctor's contract was an agreement between a town's administrators and a doctor to treat bubonic plague patients. These contracts are present in European city archives. [ 6 ] Their contractual responsibility was to treat plague patients, and no other type of patient, to prevent spreading the disease to the uninfected. [ 42 ]
Yes. It does seem strange that there's an article on the costume itself when there's already a section for it on the plague doctor article. Jess Coppola 16:20, 8 March 2021 (UTC) Yes, there is a lot of duplicate information between the two articles.CharlieCandide 03:10, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
The Great Plague of Vienna occurred in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers. From contemporary descriptions, the disease is believed to have been bubonic plague, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, carried by fleas associated with the black rat and other rodents. The city was crippled by ...
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Man dies from Bubonic plague in New Mexico. Amelia Neath. March 12, 2024 at 12:37 PM ... while residents should see a doctor if they have any unexplained illnesses involving a sudden and severe fever.
Prayers to the gods to end the plague, by Mursili II, from the 14th century BC. Shown in Hattusa, Istanbul, Archaeological Museum. According to author Philip Norrie (How Disease Affected the End of the Bronze Age), there are three diseases most likely to have caused a post-Bronze Age societal collapse: smallpox, bubonic plague, and tularemia ...
Niall Ó Glacáin [6] (sometimes anglicised as Nial O'Glacan; [2] [7] c. 1563 – 1653) was an Irish physician and plague doctor who worked to treat victims of bubonic plague outbreaks throughout continental Europe. He was a physician to Hugh Roe O'Donnell and King Louis XIII.