this costume reflects a modern view of protection against the plague. In addition, the beak mask also functions as a filter for air contaminated with the plague. All spices are important to fight the stench of black death victims. According to Henderson, the beak on the mask serves as a container for placing various herbal spices, such as mint, rose essence, and others. Regarding masks or masks that resemble a bird's beak, John Henderson in a book entitled Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (2019), reveals the reason. Because it is so iconic, the costume designed by French doctor Charls De Lorme (1584-1678) even became a symbol of those who work as health professionals. The mask had become a marker for doctors to treat bubonic plague patients.
Not only clothes, masks with long bird beaks or known as plague masks or long beaked masks are also things that attract attention. If usually doctors are synonymous with white costumes, especially when the black death attacked Europe, doctors actually wore the dominant black costume.
The costume used by Plague Doctor at that time was indeed interesting. Through this poem, he described the unusual costumes worn by "plague doctors", doctors who have the task of treating patients with bubonic plague or black death in Europe. JAKARTA - Those are the contents of the popular poetry by Dr. Their hats and cloaks belong to the latest fashions,įrom the dirty air that might be dangerous.
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