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Few images in medical history are as striking (or as creepy) as those of plague doctors with their long, beaked masks.

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Why Did Doctors Wear Beak Masks During the Bubonic Plague?

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F ew images in medical history are as striking (or as creepy) as those of plague doctors with their long, beaked masks. This peculiar costume, worn by physicians during outbreaks of bubonic plague in Europe, has become an enduring symbol of the disease. But why did doctors wear these strange masks, and what purpose did the design serve? 

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