JJ_BPK
03-12-2020, 12:32
Plague Doctors w/uniforms were a 17th-century attempt to protect the doctors. The mask actually had "essence", sometimes lavender, as a purifying filter. The coat, mack, hat, & gloves were physical barrier protection.
Plague doctors by their covenant treated plague patients and were known as municipal or "community plague doctors", whereas "general practitioners" were separate doctors and both might be in the same European city or town at the same time.
In France and the Netherlands, plague doctors often lacked medical training and were referred to as "empirics". In one case, a plague doctor was a fruit salesman before his employment as a physician.
There no records of an SF 18D ever being a fruit salesman..
YMMV :D
Plague doctors by their covenant treated plague patients and were known as municipal or "community plague doctors", whereas "general practitioners" were separate doctors and both might be in the same European city or town at the same time.
In France and the Netherlands, plague doctors often lacked medical training and were referred to as "empirics". In one case, a plague doctor was a fruit salesman before his employment as a physician.
There no records of an SF 18D ever being a fruit salesman..
YMMV :D