Plague doctors, or at least images ... Once in a very great while they performed autopsies in an effort to understand the disease that had ravaged Europe off and on for centuries. Dressed for Success.

That the plague doctors looked like ravens about to pick on the bones of the dead is an image that sticks with you. ... Chinese doctors during the Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-11.

Dubbed 'the Plague Doctor', the eerie figure has been seen numerous times all over Chester, in Cheshire, usually at night. Whoever it is doesn't speak or make a sound, and simply wanders the ...

The Bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, ravaged Europe for centuries, claiming millions of lives. Believing the plague spread through miasma, or bad air, doctors wore elaborate costumes ...

Things were less cozy in London. Quarantining was invented during the first wave of bubonic plague in the 14th century, but it was deployed more systematically during the Great Plague. Public ...