Clothes worn by plague doctors are meant to protect them from airborne diseases. The costumes, used in France and Italy in the 17th century, consisted of ankle length coat and a bird's beak mask, often filled with sweet or strong odor (generally lavender), along with gloves, boots, brimm-width cap , and clothing outerwear.
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Description
The mask has a glass opening in the eye and a curved beak shaped like a bird with a rope holding a beak in front of the doctor's nose. The mask has two small nostrils and a respirator that contains aromatic objects. The beak can hold dry flowers (including roses and carnations), spices (including mint), spices, camphor, or sponge vinegar. The purpose of the mask is to ward off the unpleasant smell, which is considered the main cause of this disease, before being disputed by the germ theory. The doctors believe the herbs will fight the smell of the "evil" plague and prevent them becoming infected.
The half-doctor costumes worn by the plague doctors have broad-brimmed leather hats to show their profession. They use wooden sticks to indicate areas that need attention and check the patient without touching them. The sticks are also used to keep people away, to remove clothes from plague victims without having to touch them, and to take the patient's pulse.
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History
Medical historians attribute the discovery of the "half-life" costume to Charles de Lorme, who adopted in 1619 the idea of ​​a complete head-to-toe attire, modeled after a soldier's armor. It consists of a mask like a bird with glasses, and a long leather dress (Morocco or Levantine) or waxes that can go from the neck to the ankle. Over-clothing garments, as well as leggings, gloves, boots, and hats, are made of waxed leather. The garment was impregnated with fragrant items similar to a beak mask.
Lorme writes that the mask has a "half-legged, half-shaped half-nose, filled with perfume with only two holes, one on each side near the nostrils, but it can be enough to breathe and carry with breathing air. in the beak â €.
Genevese Doctor Jean-Jacques Manget, in 1721 his Treatise on the Plague written just after the Great Plague of Marseille, described the costume worn by the plague physician in Nijmegen in 1636-1637. The costume formed the front of Manget 1721. The plague of Nijmegen's doctor also wore a beaked mask. Their robes, leggings, hats, and gloves are made of morocco leather.
The costume was also worn by plague doctors during the 1656 outbreak, which killed 145,000 people in Rome and 300,000 in Naples. The costume frightened people because it was an imminent sign of death. Outbreak doctors wear these protective costumes according to their agreement when they attend the patients of their outbreak.
Culture
This costume is also associated with a commedia dell'arte character called Medico della Peste (Doctor of Epidemic), who is wearing a typical plague mask doctor. Venetian masks are usually white, consisting of a hollow beak and rounded eye holes coated with clear glass, and is one of the special masks worn during the Venetian Carnival.
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External links
- Outbreak of Doctor Costume - Clothes Worn by Doctor Outbreak
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