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"...come all the way back around to the plague doctor posey mask"
Title (Dublin Core)
"...come all the way back around to the plague doctor posey mask"
Description (Dublin Core)
A tweet by author Anne Thériault featuring a screenshot of a Facebook post extolling the benefits of putting herbs in the pocket many masks have in order to make the experience of wearing a mask more pleasant. The intended purpose of these pockets is as place to put an added filter to cloth masks should you need to enter a high risk area such as a hospital. The tweet itself points out how this is essentially identical to the practice of placing dried herbs and flowers (posies) in plague doctors masks during Bubonic Plague outbreaks- in that case to keep the scents which were thought to spread the disease at bay.
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Type (Dublin Core)
Tweet
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Publisher (Dublin Core)
Twitter
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Clothing & Accessories
English
Environment & Landscape
English
Health & Wellness
English
Social Media (including Memes)
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
mask
herb
herbal medicine
#historyrepeatsitself
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
07/06/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/19/2020
10/02/2020
10/23/2020
This item was submitted on July 6, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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