Venezia header: Piazza San Marco - Riva degli Schiavoni

PLAGUE PHYSICIAN - year 1495

 

Not much information about this engraving, but there are a couple things to be noted that make this image unlike the others:

  • It is a different, previous period
  • No technology in the dress, no mask, only holding a pomader, maybe to get rid of foul odors

Plague was rather common in those times, but medicine had not yet found any feasible solution.

Anonymous: "Plague physician holding a pomader"
engraving (15th century) - Museo Correr - Venezia

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