Plague doctors wore beak-like masks, stuffing the beak with herbs in a desperate attempt to protect themselves from the plague. [Courtesy] However bad things are, they can get infinitely worse.

Many other doctors have fled the city for fear of ... The first recorded case of the Black Death in England was in June 1348. Bubonic plague was spread by rats, which were commonly found in ...

In 1348 the Black Death arrived in England and by 1349 it ... one-sixth of the city’s population. However, doctors had no real idea about what caused the plague. In fact, it was only the onset ...

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believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes that it was ’the ...

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.

Little did I realise I was going to be part of the attraction myself — by going behind the scenes for 30 minutes of make-up that turned me into the Plague Doctor. Nothing prepared me for the ...

This widely held myth is especially associated with stories of the Black Death, the horrific plague that ravaged Europe from 1348 to 1351 ... trope of the Jewish doctor/sorcerer/poisoner ...

It’s also the premise for The Last Plague: Blight, which blends post-apocalyptic dread with wilderness survival and has just launched in Early Access on Steam. The Last Plague: Blight is a co-op ...

Plague doctors wore beak-like masks, stuffing the beak with herbs in a desperate attempt to protect themselves from the plague. [Courtesy] However bad things are, they can get infinitely worse.