Why did doctors during the Black Death wear ‘beak masks’?
2014年6月2日 · Paul Fürst, engraving, c. 1721, of a plague doctor of Marseilles. However, though the beak mask has become an iconic symbol of the Black Death, there is no evidence it was actually worn during the 14th Century epidemic. Medical historians have in fact attributed the invention of the ‘beak doctor’ costume to a French doctor named Charles de ...
Masque of the Black Death: How Europe’s Rulers Resisted the …
2017年8月25日 · The plague returned to London with a vengeance in 1665. The first cases occurred in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields, outside the city walls, in the early spring. The death rate rose swiftly and the infection spread so rapidly that in April King Charles II prorogued parliament so that the lords and the MPs could flee the city.
The Death of Arthur Tudor: Did Bubonic plague put Henry VIII on …
2016年5月31日 · Bubonic Plague. Another great epidemic to frequently blight Tudor England, the Great Plague of 1499-1500 was over, but localised outbreaks were still being recorded – this could well match reports of “a great sickness” in the Ludlow area.
Great Fire of London 350: Discover the role of medicine, charms …
2016年9月1日 · The Royal College of Physicians is commemorating the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London with a new free exhibition, ‘To fetch out the fire’: Reviving London, 1666 which explores medical treatment of the period through original artefacts, remedies, portraits and documents, as well as the destruction of the original Royal College building and its rebirth for …
10 Bizarre Assassination Attempts From History
2017年7月24日 · Jean-Paul Marat was a doctor, scientist, and influential journalist of the French Revolution who served in the National Convention. Marat fought with the Girondists, who were against the violence of the revolution. Marat had for many years suffered a skin condition so foul that it had forced his resignation from the National Convention.
Litvinenko Doctor’s New Evidence: Was James VI and I Poisoned …
2017年8月24日 · As James VI and I of Scotland, England and Ireland lay dying – plagued by myriad maladies – his favourite George Villiers, the 1st Duke of Buckingham and the last in a line of handsome young favourites to share in the king’s favour, waited on his bedside until he finally passed in March 1625.
Charles II and the Great Fire of London | All About History
2017年9月5日 · The horror of the epidemic can scarcely be imagined – bodies tumbled into mass graves; infected households locked in to prevent the spread of contagion. By the end of the year, the plague had run its course but the government had little cause to rejoice. The treasury was empty, the war was going badly and peace negotiations were making no ...
The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom book review
2018年11月22日 · The vampire is perhaps the most enduring and evolving memory of that bestiary. From Nosferatu’s sepulchral plague rat in 1922 to the rebels without a pulse of 1987’s The Lost Boys and Near Dark, we’re supposed to read the trope as eternal and unchanging, but we can see the change right before our eyes.
5 Secrets Of Mayan Medicine | All About History
2019年8月1日 · When the Spanish began their conquest of the Mayans, they brought with them diseases previously unseen by the skilled medicine men, such as influenza, measles and tuberculosis. But it was a plague of smallpox that devastated the civilisation, killing as many as 90 per cent of the native population in a century.
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