plague doctor

English

A 17th century plague doctor wearing a bird-beak mask.

Noun

plague doctor (plural plague doctors)

1. (European history) A physician treating the bubonic plague, or employed simply to collect demographic and epidemiological data, especially one wearing protective clothing including goggles and a mask with a long bird's beak filled with aromatics to ward off the disease.

Translations

plague doctor

• Arabic: طبيب الطاعون m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 瘟疫医生 (wan¹ jik⁶ ji¹ sang¹)

  Mandarin: 瘟疫医生 (wēnyì yīshēng)

• Japanese: ペスト医師 (いしゃ, pesuto ishi)
• Russian: чумной доктор (ru) m or f (čumnoj doktor) (both male and female)