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by champagnois
1589 days ago
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Even prior to advanced theories, we know of plague doctors who made efforts to protect themselves. People knew there was something going on between infections that spread them even before the more advanced germ theories of Pasteur. |
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Indeed - the figure of Il Dottore from the Commedia Del Arte wears a mask with a long "beak". The beak was stuffed with sweet-smelling herbs; in those days, they thought that it was bad smells that spread disease.
Perhaps people gathered in churches because they burned sweet-smelling incence in churches?