Since the onset of the pandemic, doctors, nurses and other medical practitioners who find themselves working closely with COVID-19 patients have traded their familiar white coats and scrubs for ...

The coronavirus pandemic has generated a change in the usual attire that physicians and other providers wear when treating hospitalized patients. The customary white coat has been replaced in the ...

It’s the beak that lends the attire of the medieval plague doctor its surreal quality, but it wasn’t there just to scare The Countercultural Roots of The Renaissance Fair What Really Happened at the ...

One of the most distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of Venice is “Il Medico della Peste,” or “The Plague Doctor.” But the distinctive bone-white mask and black clothing was actually the 17th ...

A doctor has suggested medics treating the bubonic plague in the 17th century were given more protection than NHS staff tackling coronavirus. Dr Jon Orrell, a senior partner at Royal Crescent Surgery ...

While it may seem silly today, when Hippocrates defined the four humors—blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm—the Greek physician of the fourth century B.C. built on the best science (or natural ...

We previously revealed Scots reported sighting the 'plague doctor' outside Bo'ness Academy last week. Plague doctors battled the Bubonic Plague in 1645 wearing unusual all black medical gear. The ...

A PRANKER dressed as a creepy 17th century plague doctor is terrorising locals in a British town. Residents have been left terrified after claiming to have spotted a person dressed in the medieval ...

The plague was once the most feared disease in the world, capable of wiping out hundreds of millions of people in seemingly unstoppable global pandemics and afflicting its victims with painfully ...