You Wake Up as a Plague Doctor

Why did plague doctors wear that strange beaked mask? You enter a European town during a later plague outbreak armed with herbs, vinegar, protective clothing, questionable remedies, and very little understanding of disease. Discover what doctors believed, what treatments they attempted, and why the iconic beaked costume offered far less protection than people hoped. You wake up in history. Good luck. In this episode of You’re Not Built for This, you experience the daily life, dangers, food, work, rules, and tiny disasters that shaped ordinary people in the past. Serious documentaries. Stupid stickmen. Brutal history. Subscribe for more animated history documentaries where you are dropped into another era and forced to figure out how long you would actually last. #plaguedoctors #medicalhistory #animatedhistory