there was very little the doctors could do to treat them. An engraving showing the Great Plague of London, 1665-1666. A passerby offers water to a man dying from the plague. In Scotland ...
A cane helped doctors maintain social distance from their patients ... Medical professionals wore it during 1656 outbreaks in Italy, the 1665 London Plague, and the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720.
London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly through the city, killing tens of thousands.