Plague Doctor

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The Plague Doctor's costume was designed to protect you from what was thought of as evil smells or bad air which was seen as the cause of infection at the time. This is now known as the medically obsolete ‘Miasma theory’. • • Please consider supporting our videos on Patreon • / simplehistory • SIMPLE HISTORY MERCHANDISE • https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner-... • T-Shirts • https://www.zazzle.com/simplehistory/... • Simple history gives you the facts, simple! • See the book collection here: • Amazon USA • http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner/e... • • Amazon UK • http://www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Turner... • http://www.simplehistory.co.uk/ • / simple-history-549437675141192 • / simple_guides • • Credit: • Narrator: • Chris Kane • www.vocalforge.com • Animation: • Daniel Turner • Artwork: • Daniel Turner • Thanks to Simple History fan Nathan Dim for drawing the backgrounds elements for this episode: • http://natdim.deviantart.com/gallery/ • / 500mclaren • Music Credit • Hush by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) • Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... • Artist: http://incompetech.com/ • Interesting sources: • Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XX, Issue 3, 1 July 1965, Pages 276 • Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-century Italy • By Carlo M. Cipolla • Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present • By George C. Kohn

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