Collected Item: “"...come all the way back around to the plague doctor posey mask"”
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..."come all the way back around to the plague doctor posey mask"
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tweet
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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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mask, herbs, herbal medicine, history repeats itself
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https://twitter.com/anne_theriault/status/1279876152040009728
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Anne Thériault
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2020-07-05