However the most distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like ...

The beak mask worn by the Plague Doctor is of secondary importance in medical history. This is clearly demonstrated by the work of the medical historian and director of the German Museum of Medical ...

Presented with a bone-white Venetian beak mask (the kind favored by plague doctors in the Renaissance), you’re invited to gawk, shame-free, at whatever you see, to rifle through drawers ...

The famous beaked plague doctor mask wasn’t widely used until the 17th Century, but Venetians were already thinking about protective clothing during the 1575-7 epidemic. During this period ...