My husband made this plague mask, with plenty of space in the beak for sweet-smelling herbs, which they used to think cured most illnesses, since it was thought that ‘bad air’ (mal aria) caused diseases. So if you couldn’t smell them, then you’d be fine. Here I’m modeling it, in case I ever get called out to attend a plague victim.
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Ann Dickinson Sargent 