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A plague doctor's contract was an agreement between a town's administrators and a doctor to treat bubonic plague patients. These contracts are present in European city archives. [ 6 ] Their contractual responsibility was to treat plague patients, and no other type of patient, to prevent spreading the disease to the uninfected. [ 42 ]
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.
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.
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.
Plague doctor outfit from Germany (17th century) The costume consists of a leather hat, mask with glass eyes and a beak, stick to remove clothes of a plague victim, gloves, waxed linen robe, and boots.
The Plague Doctor comes in a smaller, 30-pound box with fewer pieces to assemble, but it still posed its own challenges when it came to assembly. All the pieces were haphazardly tossed in the ...
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