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Any of these for sale or any other plagie doctor models?
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Nice work! 
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Excellent. What did you use to create this? I want to use this medium to create art.
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medici della peste erano un certo cattivo asino che guarda i tizi.
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Very well done. See my digital version of a plague doctor here: [link]
I can imagine that these workers were a fearsome sight in superstition-wracked lands. Perhaps they still fight plagues of darkness today ...
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Way rad, where'd you find that? Did you make it?
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Kinda makes you wonder what's worse - the plague or the "doctor"?
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there's a polish guy in my art class draws stuff like that and it's damn cool I'm gonna favour that cause it is great and it remindes me of his work
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Amazing 8D I love anything that has anything to do with the bubonic plague. The details on the robe are excellent. Great job
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Haha, AWESOME work!! 
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They were doctors, or rather, pharmaceutical workers and their work rarely helped because the Plague, at the time was so misunderstood. However, at times, their work did help: the incense they used, such as garlic, sometimes warded away fleas -the carriers of the disease. They voluntarily came in close contact with the sick, which were usually shunned to shanties similar to leper colonies or else quarantined within their homes. They were anything but corrupt businessmen attempting to dupe the rest of society.
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I've done some light research on the subject, and the evidence weighs against what you say. Most real physicians had fled to the hills to avoid the plague because they could not cure it and didn't want to die. The plague doctors were mostly not physicians, but volunteers, who tried to benefit from the situation and earned exhorbitant sums due to the risk they put themselves in. Salary came first in this situation, even for real physicians who remained to work. Whether they were all corrupt is not for me to say, but it's part of their allure and mystique for me.
Yes, it is possible that they did limited good with garlic, but remember that superstition still reigned in the medical profession in those days. Trinkets and prayers sold by plague doctors did nothing but earn them an extra buck.
It's all right here -
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It's a plague doctor, who were people in the middle ages who duped people into buying trinkets and incense and other things to ward off the plague. They were most often not doctors at all, but corrupt businessmen who wanted to make money from the crisis. The beak and glasses and the waxed robes were basically the equivalent of a modern hazmat suit.
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oh yea lol i read about that in the 7th grade
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Your work is quite gorgeous.
I'm particularly fond of these plague doctors....
and you've captured them wonderfully.
I may sound a bit repetative...but, I'm just in complete awe...
Great work.
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