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A physician wearing a seventeenth century plague preventive costume. Watercolour, ca. 1910.
- Date
- [1910?]
- Reference
- 2084i
- Pictures
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Description
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
Publication/Creation
[1910?]
Physical description
1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 50.8 x 35.9 cm
Lettering
Costume worn by doctors during an outbreak of plague 17th century
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 2084i
Type/Technique
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores