Thomas Le Forestier, a French doctor ... plague the poor, in post-medieval London they were a feature of all levels of society. Rather than try to remove the rats, an almost impossible task, Tudor ...

Tudor doctors had little understanding of the causes ... They also understood that some diseases - eg plague - were passed more easily when people lived in close proximity. Download / print ...

This is a 17th-century German or Austrian plague doctor mask, from the collection of the Deutches Historisches Museum. (Anagoria/GNU Free Documentation License) Since the onset of the pandemic ...