The Bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, ravaged Europe for centuries, claiming millions of lives. Believing the ...

Mesny dismissed the younger doctor and refused to believe his theory that the plague was pneumonic. Mesny then visited a hospital without covering his face and died within days. Suddenly, masks ...

Police have said they are keen to trace a person who has been walking around a village dressed as a 17th Century plague doctor ... and pointed beak-like mask. Doctors treating those with the ...

Officers have now identified the plague doctor as a boy in his late teens and ... those with the Black Death believed the bird-like mask acted as a filter against the disease.

One is Protean Masks, written by Joshua Spiller of Aces Weekly ... and the amnesiac Anu'u – as they try to discover the cure ...

Major Grom: Plague Doctor’ synopsis is as follows: “In present-day St. Petersburg, police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with unconventional methods, pursues a vigilante murderer in the ...

The mask was too big for my small suitcase ... ‘Creepy’ was the general response from anyone who saw it, as was ‘Venetian plague doctor’. It is, however, really simple to use, and after ...

Light is shed on the chilling history of the island of Poveglia, a forbidden and "haunted" place in northern Italy.

Kemp plays jaded London detective John Verney, on the trail of a serial killer cutting a swathe through London’s underworld in the guise of a 17 th century Plague Doctor. As the bodies pile up, Verney ...

George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of ... comforted by the sweet smell of herbs from inside his beaked mask. For he believes it is bad air, called ‘miasma’, that ...