El Plague Doctor o Médico de la Peste Negra es conocido por formar parte del mal presagio de enfermedades, portador de la muerte en el siglo XIV en Europa y Asia, la cual se transformó en una epidemia, quien tuviera la mala fortuna de que este personaje lo visitará era porque la muerte lo acechaba, porque su fin estaba cerca.
Su atuendo daba vida a un aspecto siniestro, gracias a su uso de grandes y largas chaquetas de cuero o batas negras, guantes y ni hablar de la máscara que lo caracteriza, en forma de pajarraco gigante, pico largo, donde el mismo introducía hierbas, aceites, para evitar ser contagiado frente a sus pacientes en agonía, la forma de esta máscara era para reducir la entrada de aire, ésta hacia referencia a que la enfermedad la extendían y esparcían las aves a lo largo del territorio, los lentes rojos dentro de la máscara, éste médico no era mas que un individuo sin grado académico en medicina, era un aspirante que soñaba con tratar enfermedades no mortales, otro aspecto que lo identifica es la manipulación de un palo de madera con el cual movía a sus pacientes para revisarlos de manera que no tuviera que tener contacto directo con ellos.
La peste negra o peste bubónica no era mas que una enfermedad mortal que consistía en la inflamación de los ganglios linfáticos en ingles y axilas, seguido de fiebre, dolor de cabeza, bubones, tumores que segregaban un líquido purulento, ésta la transmitían las pulgas infectadas que habitaban en roedores, la picadura de éste insecto propagaba esta enfermedad.
Por acá les dejo una pequeña pieza ilustrada por un artista "Danny Lee"
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The Plague Doctor or Physician of the Black Death is known to be part of the evil omen of diseases, carrier of death in the fourteenth century in Europe and Asia, which became an epidemic, who had the misfortune that this character He would visit him because death was watching him, because his end was near.
His attire gave life to a sinister aspect, thanks to his use of large and long leather jackets or black coats, gloves and not to mention the mask that characterizes him, in the form of giant bird, long beak, where he introduced herbs, oils, to avoid being infected in front of their patients in agony, the shape of this mask was to reduce the entry of air, this referred to the disease spread and spread the birds throughout the territory, the red lenses inside The mask, this doctor was no more than an individual without an academic degree in medicine, was an aspirant who dreamed of treating non-fatal diseases, another aspect that identifies him is the manipulation of a wooden stick with which he moved his patients to review them so that I did not have to have direct contact with them.
The black plague or bubonic plague was nothing more than a deadly disease consisting of inflammation of the lymph nodes in the English and armpits, followed by fever, headache, buboes, tumors that secreted a purulent fluid, it was transmitted by infected fleas who lived in rodents, the bite of this insect spread this disease.
Here I leave a small piece illustrated by an artist "Danny Lee"
I hope you like it :)