The Plague Doctor’s eerie beak mask was designed to protect against “evil” smells thought to cause disease. But the truth ...

A 1619 outbreak of plague in France, rooted largely in Paris, led to the first medical mask. As the disease killed some 80 percent of those it afflicted, French doctor Charles De Lorme invented an ...

The most effective way to cure the epidemic is by placing a Physician in the settlement. These will look like their real-life Plague doctor counterparts, wearing a crow's-beak-shaped mask and wielding ...