However the most distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351 ... George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of the isolation huts. He dreads the thought ...

While the bubonic plague is often reserved for the history books ... from the situation which evolved in the 14th century when doctors tried a range of unique remedies to cure the Black Death.