This time the London doctors were ready for it. It was the beginning of 1665, and the plague—the bubonic kind, as nasty a way to go as nature has yet cooked up—was back, but medical science ...

Episode 6 Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode 6. As the Silurian plague quickly spreads, the Doctor desperately ...

During the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Italy in the 1650s, it was believed that the doctors taking care of the sick would dawn these masks in addition to long garb and wide-brimmed leather hats.

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

The story’s narrator recounts the actions of a small group of men when the plague invades the Algerian port city of Oran. Bernard Rieux, a doctor who doubles as the narrator, and Jean Tarrou, a ...

Using toad vomit or gemstones to cure the plague sure does sound kooky today, but Newton "wasn't an outlier in the context of the 17th century," Sutherland said.