A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour, ca. 1910.

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[1910?]
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2084i
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A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour, ca. 1910. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The costume worn by physicians 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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[1910?]

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1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 50.8 x 35.9 cm

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Costume worn by doctors during an outbreak of plague 17th century

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Wellcome Collection 2084i

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