Given the recent headlines about PPE, spare a thought for medics of the past. This physician attending plague patients is described by Jean Jacques Manget in his Traité de la peste, Geneva, 1721:

“The gown was made of Morocco leather, with underneath a skirt, breeches and boots, all of leather and fitting into one another. The long beak-like nose piece was fitted with aromatic substances and the eyeholes were covered with glass.”

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