Back then they believed that diseases were carried by bad smells called miasma. Those long beaks were stuffed with flowers and other pleasant smelling things to protect the doctors from the miasma.
Of course, miasma isn’t real, and strapping a cone full of flowers over your nose won’t protect you from the bubonic plague, which wiped out 75% of Europe.
PowderPills on
Well it IS the ‘black’ plague. Had to make a strong statement.
BusyBeeBridgette on
The beak areas of those style head gear were typically filled with flowers and and things like that. To help squash the stench and they thought it genuinely helped them, too. It did not.
Seeing this and thinking back on covid i think we could have avoided a lot of the anti-mask behaviour if masks looked cooler and were more comfortable. Before the next pandemic the goal should be for everyone to have a cool and reuseable multipurpose mask that fits your personal style. Wether its the classic plauged octor look, a bane mask or a flag or a political message that would make people way less resistant to mask when necessary.
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Spy vs Spy ahh
No-Mine-5283 on
Fun fact, it wasn’t called the black plague, or black death, while it was happening. It was called the great pestilence.
Nobody started calling it the black anything until black became a bad word.
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Back then they believed that diseases were carried by bad smells called miasma. Those long beaks were stuffed with flowers and other pleasant smelling things to protect the doctors from the miasma.
Of course, miasma isn’t real, and strapping a cone full of flowers over your nose won’t protect you from the bubonic plague, which wiped out 75% of Europe.
Well it IS the ‘black’ plague. Had to make a strong statement.
The beak areas of those style head gear were typically filled with flowers and and things like that. To help squash the stench and they thought it genuinely helped them, too. It did not.
[Damn right they were aura farmin’](https://youtu.be/bKbf-JtUQO4?si=pa2plrtpZD1t7Pfu)
Seeing those photos of the doctors when I was younger used to scare me sooo bad
As much as I love the fits, they’ve been super fantasized and exaggerated. Imagine this thing being your doctor
https://preview.redd.it/nb0ha7l649qg1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baab8d8412822e10dd7b1edbd34c3530489c80b8
Straight drip lets bring it back
They had no clue, eating uncooked rats n shit lol
I dunno 🤷🏿♂️
Mf got that shit on tho lmfao.
Seeing this and thinking back on covid i think we could have avoided a lot of the anti-mask behaviour if masks looked cooler and were more comfortable. Before the next pandemic the goal should be for everyone to have a cool and reuseable multipurpose mask that fits your personal style. Wether its the classic plauged octor look, a bane mask or a flag or a political message that would make people way less resistant to mask when necessary.
Spy vs Spy ahh
Fun fact, it wasn’t called the black plague, or black death, while it was happening. It was called the great pestilence.
Nobody started calling it the black anything until black became a bad word.