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Masks and Chocolate
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Long nosed masks were worn by physicians - the idea being that the air they breathed was rid of plague germs by being filtered through a herbal mix in the nose of the mask. Ineffective, but it did lead to the use of the descriptive term "quacks" for doctors. |
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