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Win FREE stuff and be famous by posting a picture of yourself wearing your purchase to Instagram and tag it with #rwelife to appear here instantly for fellow fans to admire. We select photos every week to win FREE stuff! © 2017 All rights reserved. Plague Doctor's Battlefield Medicine For the Darkest Dungeon Indie Game Design Contest – Official Site The Plague Doctor T-Shirt Plague doctor, 17th cen Women's Cap Sleeve T-Shirt The Original Doktor Schnabel Party Like It's 1347 T-Shirt The Black Death Women's Cap Sleeve T-Shirt Trust me I'm a Scientist T-Shirt Everyone Needs Teabreaks T-Shirt Plague Doctor 2 Women's Cap Sleeve T-ShirtHey, it appears the automatic Spreadshop loader didn't work so click below to shop Click here for more product options, from Kids and Babies to 5XLThis week is plague week at Retrospectacle, and every day I will be posting something about the Black Plague. Now that you’ve read my introduction to the Black Plague replete with its cause (both real and imagined), I wanted to write a bit about what ‘Plague doctors’ in 16th century Europe wore in an attempt to stave off being infected themselves.

While perhaps having some small effect to prevent infection, the odd costumes surely had a large effect on scaring their patients. However, the intention of the extreme costume was to prevent the doctor from coming into contact with ‘miasmas’ (bad air).the north face 'denali' hoodie (big boys) These costumes (pictured above) consisted of a huge beaked hat made of bronze, a hollow walking stick, pants and a gown coated in wax, and leather gloves. isu hoodiesSince the cause of the Plague was still believed to be ‘bad air,’ the hat’s “beak” was stuffed with aromatic herbs and spices which were thought to purify the air the doctor breathed. zoomer hoodiesAromatic air was thought to be antiseptic air, and the scent covered the malodor of rot and death. ovoxo hoodie drake

The hat also offered eye protection in the form of crystal eye-pieces. The doctor would sometimes place garlic in the beak and directly in his mouth. The hollow, perforated pointing stick could also be stuffed with herbs and was waved in front of the doctor to “purify” his path. mens hoodies 3xltThe stick also had the bonus use of pushing Plague-infected people away from the doctor if they got too close, or directing some course of action without having to do it themselves. hoodie mit schalkragenThe stick could be used to examine an infected patient without actually touching them.urban hoodie heidi finn The doctor’s clothes, and undergarments, were usually treated with either wax or soaked in camphor oil or other preservative liquids. This was thought to create a makeshift seal against the ‘bad air’ or further purify it.

There is reason to think that this ridiculous get-up actually *did* provide some small level of protection to the Plague doctors, but not for the reasons that they would have thought (ie, it wasn’t miasmas). First, protecting the eyes, nose and mouth was a good idea since Y. pestis can easily enter through any mucous membrane. In addition, the wax-coated clothes might have prevented fleas from burrowing towards and biting the doctor. Dr. Kenneth Gage, a bubonic plague specialist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this costume “probably gave reasonable protection” against the bubonic plague. Because the nose, mouth, mucous membranes, as well as hands and body were covered, the doctor limited his chances of exposure to airborne droplets containing the plague bacillus. Because herbs obstructed the breathing holes, and the beak was difficult to breath through, the doctor lessened his chances of inhaling infectious droplets. Dr. Gage adds that because the plague bacillus could only survive for a short time outside of a host, there is a good chance the doctor would not become infected as he removed his costume.

Though it gave reasonable protection against airborne particles, this protective shield did not keep out fleas. Because the outer cloak did not seal around the ankles, Dr Gage points out that the area most vulnerable to flea bites was exposed. Here were some common prescriptions for the Black Plague, as administered by these doctors, along with an assessment of their effectiveness. Does reading this give you an idea for a costume, or are you envious of the fashionable Plague mask? Then check out this purveyor of weird haberdashery if you would like a Plague mask of your own.Megadeth A Tout Le Monde Beer Glass Set Megadeth A Tout Le Monde Tee A Tout Le Monde Beer Glass Megadeth A Tout Le Monde HatIn the Middle Ages people were terrified of an executioner costume - a hoodie and a mask hiding the face. A garment of a Plague Doctor who reported that the Black Death, the Plague, settled nearby was equally horrifying. Cases of bubonic or pneumonic plague were not the only ones called plague, and pestilence and other epidemics with fatalities had the same name.

Information about the first plague goes back to the 5th century. It broke out in the Eastern Roman Empire during the reign of the Emperor Justinian who died from the disease. In his honor, the plague was named "Justinian." The largest pandemic (Black Death) of 1348 - 1351 was brought to Europe by Genoese sailors from the East. It was hard to think of a more effective means of spreading the plague than medieval ships. The holds were full of rats that carried the infection by leaving fleas on all decks. The bubonic plague is manifested in swollen lymph nodes (buboes) that become extremely painful and hard to touch. Lymph nodes are filled with pus and may burst open. The cycle of infection from fleas to rats and from rats to fleas could last until the rats die out. Hungry fleas in search of a new host would transfer the disease to humans. As a result, no country in Western Europe escaped the epidemic of plague, even Greenland. It is believed that the Netherlands, Czech, Polish, and Hungarian lands remained nearly unaffected, but the geography of the spread of the plague is still not fully understood.

The plague moved at the speed of a horse, the main transport of the time. During a pandemic, between 25 and 40 million people were killed, according to various estimates. The number of victims in different regions ranged from 1/ 8 to 2/3 of the total population. No one was safe in the face of the plague. Among the dead were French King Louis the Saint, the wife of Philip of Valois Joan of Bourbon, and a daughter of Louis X Joan of Navarre, Alphonse Spanish, German Emperor Gunther, a brother of King of Sweden, and painter Titian. Doctors at that time could not immediately identify the disease as it was assumed that the transmission of the disease occurred during physical contact, through clothes and linens. Based on these ideas the most infernal medieval costume of a Plague Doctor has emerged. To visit the sick during the plague, the doctors had to wear special clothes that were a combination of prejudice and sound thought in terms of epidemiology considerationsю It was believed that the mask with a beak that made doctors look like ancient Egyptian deities repelled the disease.

The beak's function was to protect the doctor from foul smell of the sick. The tip of the beak was filled with strong-smelling herbs that made breathing in the constant stench of plague easier.  Plague Doctors constantly chewed garlic for prevention, and the beak protected others from the garlic odor. In addition, doctors put incense on a special sponge and placed it in the nose and ears. To prevent suffocation from this bouquet of smells, the beak had two small vents. The mask also had a glass insert for eyes protection. A long waxed coat and leather or oiled clothes made ​​of thick fabric were required to avoid contact with infected patients. Often clothes were soaked with a mixture of camphor, oil and wax. In reality, it allowed to some extent to avoid bites of plague carries - fleas, and protected from the airborne disease, although people were not aware of it at the time. The costume was completed with a leather hat with a hood with a cape under it covering the joint between the mask and clothing.

Costumes varied depending on the location and doctors' financial resources. For example, in Tallinn Kiek in de Kok museum one can find a doctor's costume without a hat, but with a hood tightly fitting the beak. Wealthier doctors wore beaks made of bronze. Doctors' gloved hands often had two things in them, a stick to chase away hopelessly infected, and a scalpel for dissecting buboes. The stick was filled with incense that was supposed to protect from evil spirits. In addition doctors had caskets of aromatic herbs and substances meant to "scare" the plague away. In addition to doctors, Mortus worked in the streets and homes of those infected. They were recruited from convicted criminals or those who have had the plague and managed to survive. These were special servants whose duty was to collect the dead bodies and deliver them to the place of burial. Ancient engravings from London depict Mortus bringing bodies on carts and wagons, digging graves and burying the dead. The engravings of the time also show burning braziers.

It was believed that the fire and smoke purified contaminated air, and fires were burning everywhere through the night, and incenses were smoking to help clear the air of contagion. Londoners in the 17th century, for example, persuaded people to smoke tobacco, equating it to healing incenses. Perhaps the most famous Plague Doctor was Michel de Notre-Dame, better known as a predictor Nostradamus. Little is known about his methods of plague treatment. He recommended drinking only boiled water, sleeping in a clean bed, and in case of plague danger at the first opportunity to leave dirty stinking cities and breathing the fresh air of the countryside. For disinfection of the premises where patients died, the doctors recommended, among other things, placing a saucer of milk in the room that supposedly absorbed the poisoned air. During monetary transactions in the times of the plague and other epidemics shoppers placed their money in the market in a container of honey vinegar or simply vinegar that every seller had.