plague doctor

English

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

Noun

plague doctor (plural plague doctors)

(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)

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