Cops in the English village of Hellesdon are hunting for an unidentified individual who's been creeping out locals by lurking around town while dressed as a 17th Century plague doctor.

While the plague doctor is a figure from the past symbolized through Venetian masks, in many ways new technology has served as its contemporary medical surrogate.

Despite its fearsome appearance, the plague doctor’s costume — the “personal protective equipment” of the Middle Ages — had a noble purpose. It was intended to enable physicians to ...

"Everybody probably is familiar with the classic image of the beaked physician, the plague doctor," Honigsbaum said. That the plague doctors looked like ravens about to pick on the bones of the ...

The delegate was dressed as a "plague doctor" and as the name suggests, plague doctors were involved in attempting to help people suffering from the bubonic plague, although many of them were not ...

Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks In the 17th century, people believed these outfits could purify poisonous air. They were wrong.