Context: Plague doctor suits were basically the medieval hazmat suit. Thick oiled leather, a beak mask with herbs as a filter, and full coverage. Every detail was meant to minimize infection. They even had drip, which is a bonus. So yeah, they were working with the tech points they had.
The pointy masks that doctors wore looked that way because they would stuff them full of bouquets of flowers and herbs to cover the stench of the pestilent flesh and rotting corpses of the dying and dead all around them. It was not an aesthetic choice.
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marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Filling a house with scented smoke was also probably a quite successful way to push the plague out of it.