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The Plague Doctor’s Beak Was Full of Flowers | Object Histories
If you saw this figure walking toward your house in the 1600s, you knew someone was dying. The wide-brimmed hat, the waxed coat, the glass-eyed leather mask with a foot-long beak — this was the plague doctor, designed in 1619 by a French royal physician who was working from a medical theory that turned out…