In Italy and France during the 17th century, the plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of the bubonic plague. He would dawn a plague mask which usually resembled the face of a white bird ...

Long before TikTok theories, Nostradamus captivated Europe with his eerily accurate predictions. Here’s the history of the plague doctor—whose life was as interesting as his prophecies. Michel de ...

I first glimpsed a plague doctor years ago, in a framed etching on the wall of a Venetian gift shop. The image was macabre: a sinister, masked figure draped in a dark robe. The head was covered with a ...

Avoid him like the plague! Cops in the English village of Hellesdon are hunting for an unidentified individual who’s been creeping out locals by lurking around town while dressed as a 17th-century ...

While it may seem silly today, when Hippocrates defined the four humors—blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm—the Greek physician of the fourth century B.C. built on the best science (or natural ...

"A doctor, researcher and alchemist who prefers to hang back, eating away at her foes with stacking damage-over-time abilities like toxic clouds & plague-filled grenades. She is equally effective in a ...