plague doctor

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A 17th century plague doctor wearing a bird-beak mask.

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plague doctor (plural plague doctors)

  1. (European history) A physician treating the bubonic plague, or employed simply to collect demographic and epidemiological data, especially one wearing protective clothing including goggles and a mask with a long bird's beak filled with aromatics to ward off the disease.

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