AnswerThe masks were made of stiffened cloth and painted to look like bird beaks. One reason for this was that some people thought birds spread the plague, so wearing a bird mask was a sort of...
Medieval physicians strongly believed in the power of 'miasmas', or noxious odours. The masks to which you are referring oft had long beaks containing antiseptic, strong-smelling liquids, which they...
the doctors wore the plague mask because the plague was thought to be spread by birds so that when they treated a person with the plague it would be drawn into their garments because the mask was...