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A Physician Wearing a Seventeenth-Century Plague Preventive Costume

Image credit: Wellcome Collection

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The costume worn by physicians attending plague patients is described by Jean Jacques Manget in his 'Traité de la peste', Geneva, 1721: ‘The gown was made of Morocco leather, with underneath a skirt, breeches and boots, all of leather and fitting into one another. The long beak-like nose piece was fitted with aromatic substances and the eyeholes were covered with glass.’

Wellcome Collection

London

Title

A Physician Wearing a Seventeenth-Century Plague Preventive Costume

Medium

watercolour on paper (?)

Measurements

H 61.6 x W 43.9 cm

Accession number

10115i

Acquisition method

presumed to be part of the collection formed by Henry S. Wellcome

Work type

Watercolour

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