Just look at that mask for a second.
Either way you spin it, this is truly the stuff of nightmares! The outfit, the gloves, all paired with that birdlike mask. But while seeing a plague doctor is scary, being a plague doctor would be another kind of scary entirely. Just imagine trying to care for all of these sick people of the same symptoms and not understanding why. THE LESSER OF TWO EVILSWhen we think of seeing a plague doctor, we can't seem to decide what would be worse.