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Copper engraving of a plague doctor of 17th-century Rome. A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague [1] during epidemics in 17th-century Europe. These physicians were hired by cities to treat infected patients regardless of income, especially the poor, who could not afford to pay.
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Niall Ó Glacáin [6] (sometimes anglicised as Nial O'Glacan; [2] [7] c. 1563 – 1653) was an Irish physician and plague doctor who worked to treat victims of bubonic plague outbreaks throughout continental Europe. He was a physician to Hugh Roe O'Donnell and King Louis XIII.
The costume is also associated with a commedia dell'arte character called Il Medico della Peste ('The Plague Doctor'), who wears a distinctive plague doctor's mask. [37] The Venetian mask was normally white, consisting of a hollow beak and round eye-holes covered with clear glass, and is one of the distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of ...
All the dead animals tested positive for the plague bacteria. [19] A political cartoon published in a Chinese-language daily paper in June 1900; epidemiologist Joseph J. Kinyoun being injected in the head with Waldemar Haffkine's experimental plague vaccine. Two other doctors appear to be developing buboes on their heads from the oversized ...
Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist.He is remembered as the co-discoverer (1894) of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis.
John Paulitious (died June 1645) was Edinburgh's first plague doctor. [1] [2] [3] He died in June 1645 of bubonic plague within weeks of tending the sick. [3]At the time, there was a severe epidemic of this disease in Edinburgh; [1] it's believed that there were only about 60 men around to defend the city at the height of the epidemic.
Isbrand van Diemerbroeck, ca. 1670, engraving by Jean Edelinck Jsbrand van Diemerbroeck as plague doctor. Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (also Ijsbrand or Ysbrand) (13 December 1609 – 16 November 1674) was a Dutch physician, anatomist, and professor.