"They've got white bird masks, and waxed overcoats, and they were around during the Black Death. They thought the herbs they stuffed in the nose of their masks would protect them from the bad air, but really it was the wax. It kept away the fleas from the rats that passed the infection."
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Date: 2012-01-17 08:58 pm (UTC)