Relax, I'm a doctor, I'm here to help

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>not even recognizing the name ck2
Obvious bait

LoL i have cancer you cant help me GTFO

Crusader Kings 2, a grand strategy game developed by Paradox.

>hands not gloved
>we shook hands as per
>I very much highly doubt people were as concerned with washing their hands back then

good job doctor

Guys. Come on.

Why do you need gloves when you have a beak?

>concerned with washing their hands
that wasn't a thing until the 1800's!
Semmelweis, iirc.

listen here u lil bitch

The Plague doctor concept is actually kind of interesting because it shows that they had some vague concept of how disease was spread even though they were clueless about the specifics. Plague doctors were forbidden to treat anybody besides plague victims because they didn't want to spread the disease to other people with less serious illnesses.

They thought it was a miasma. Literally bad air from the swamp and corpses.

>Relax, I'm the true successor of the Roman empire. I am here to spread dominus slava rex.

How do you respond?

> yfw you realise that this wasn't a medieval thing, but that instead these people were going around like this during the 17th and 18th century

> Plague doctors would also commonly carry a cane to examine and direct patients without the need to make direct contact.

So, what, did they just poke the poor bastards or something?

>Gory Gory Gory what a helluva way to die

>see a filthy peasant
>beat him down with your cane
>"God bless his soul, the plague has claimed another victim..."

I heard that Leeches are good for the soul

This shit still happens daily in much of the third world user.

With Zoidberg! How else?

>Wasn't even her dog

Fuckin wew lad

There is no cause for alarm. I am an experienced medical professional.

Can you massage my prostate with your nose pls

kek

>The most terrifying words in the world are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

>be a plague dr. circa 17th century
lottadyingpeasants.parchment

>king orders me to check up on all the nobility to make sure they're all perfectly fine
>get to do "intense physical inspects" on all the fine noble bitches
>just prod the males with my 5 ft cane

lifeisgood.

>turns out the plague is actually real and all the nobility has it
>I catch from fucking around with noble women
>die
>mfw

Tell me about the plague doctor, why does he wear the mask?

CHEEKI BREEKI

>Be a 17th century plague doctor
>Inspecting fine ass noblewomen and shit for the court when I get a letter from a smelly peasant asking for help
>Pft fuck that
>Get a knock on the chamber door, it's the King
>user this is a serious concern you gotta go
>But-
>GET YOUR ASS THERE BY ROYAL DECREE FAG
>Fine I'll go look at this dirty fucking pig farmer
>Ride through mud to get to this shit hovel in this shit village just for some shit covered peasant to look at his sore covered ass and poke him with my cane
>Will I be okay, Doctor user?
>Sure kid
>Fuck off back to my royal bitches

>King turns up
>"user did you check the peasant?"
>Yes mlord
>"how was he"
>he's perfectly fine

>fastforward 2 months
>entire village is infected with plague
>"user what the fuck I thought you said he was fine"
>yes he was mlord, must have been the peasants bringing curses on themselves
>"go fix this you fag"
>I have serious resear-
>"user I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL FUCKING EXECUTE YOU THIS IS SERIOUS"
>fine jesus calm down man

>all the villagers are obviously sick
>wait a sec

candlesticks.canvas

>start selling a "cure"
>cure is just drilling holes in their heads
>fucks better learn to stop bitching or else
>fuck off after drilling holes in the entire village

>fastforward 5 months
>"user good job I recieved word the village is completely cured"
>what
>"in fact it's booming better than ever! I hear the peasants want to thank you, you better go. Yes, you have to. Go."
>Turn up, all the villagers have holes in their heads but look perfectly okay

>what the fuck

> Be a happy peasant during the age of enlightenment
> "oh dear, I seem to have procured the sniffles"
> Weird dude dressed fully in black turns up at my house, just when I'm beginning to feel better after resting for a few days
> stuffs as many herbs up his nose as he can, then put the rest into his (((medical))) leather beak- whilst rambling about how he seems to always miss the plague he's been assigned to alleviate by a few days
> Starts poking me with his special plague stick, which he claims "eliminates suffering in the biblical sense"
> A couple of days after his check-up, not only have I now got the plague, but so does my family
> mfw

Is that an emo big bird?

>Make my death quick, this pestilence must be contained
>Quarantine the city, kill everyone and burn the bodies
>Deus vult brother, may god have mercy on us all

>This fag doesn't believe in the power of the plague cane

You're a big bird

No, I believe in it. I only wish that the title wasn't so literal

If i take off the mask, will you die?

It would be extremely smelly

kek

Your a big birdman

...

Forserf

Was getting the plague part of your plan?

>Was getting this plague part of God's plan?
ftfy

What a loving individual this being must be.

Of courshe

forsooth

Well congradulations, you got yourself caught. Now whats the next step of your master plan?

> No, this can't be happening- I'm in charge here

Crashing this plague...

WITH NO SHURVIVORS

damn, I bet you were excited to post that.
that gif is nuts.

re: "god's plan"

wasn't this around the time people were starting to have issues with the church and faith a bit because they didn't get why god was killing everybody?
I was thinking the average serf would have thought they got sick because of sin.

not everyone plays games

"If you are a doctor, why are you dressed like a physician?"

DOCTOR DOCTOR !

Shit my pants and die of the plague.

Agreed, without knowledge of microscopic organisms this was probably the most you could reasonably figure out.

youtube.com/watch?v=lNtpNgqvwBs

You have it based off your extensive browsing of liveleak I take it?

You must be a newgger

doesn't help that so many church officials were dying that they were replacing them with basically anyone who could read latin, just to keep the tithes and wine flowing. Which didn't help, since it led to massive corruption.

Your definition of love does not apply to a being infinitely greater than you, user.

> be plague doc
> stiff nose and mask with dried plants
> die from plague

The mask can actually help you know. Maybe you heard of this thing called ebola and saw doctors on tv with masks.

thanks for the info. Just a layman - never studied history really; I know more about the history of medicine than the history of religion.
in fact would like to start a thread about the history of medicine one of these days.

anyone here read the Decameron?

Isn't that a book about nuns fucking?

*muffeled for u*

have we started the pestilence brother?

youtube.com/watch?v=3cqDXlfASMM

The corpse-pyre rises

Cuck kings 2

there's a hundred different stories in it, I guess. All told by 10 people to each other every night while they hide out together in a house in some town trying to avoid the black death. Maybe there's one or two about nuns fucking?

I'm not dead yet!
youtu.be/grbSQ6O6kbs

>Relax, I'm a doctor, I'm here to help

How do you respond?

"If i take away your book will you die?"

"It would be extremely incestuous"

PLEEEAASE

M- memento mori...

It's just a cold.. Fuck off i'm completely fine.

Well if it's the 17th century and I was born during that time, I wouldn't be myself now and would probably have no problem with it and believe him since it would be a common medical wardrobe.

>it would be a common medical wardrobe

Not at all. Do you really think all physicians dressed up like ravens? Nope. Only plague doctors. And plague doctors were forbidden to treat any illness other than the plague while acting as a plague doctor (because they didn't want to spread the disease).

So not, it wasn't common at all unless you lived in a plague infested town. Plague doctors were commissioned under special contracts negotiated with the town's leadership. And these contracts usually contained a strict "Don't Treat Anybody Besides Plague Victims" clause.

>thinking you need to point this out

How else do you identify dead people?

Poke cane is excellent diagnosis tool.

>Poke cane
Plague stick

DON'T YOU KNOW

But when the plague was happening, it was common.

Imagine dying from a plague in some dark muddy alley, you're in pains and start to hallucinate and suddenly some human-raven hybrid with hat comes to you and starts poking you with a stick

The sheer terror of this sight in unimaginable, most people probably thought it's demons coming for them

Apparently the man who invented that outfit lived to be 94. To live that long during plague years, he must have gotten something right.

...

The idea of a protective suit would probably help if you were just going about your life, but for actually dealing with plague victims I don't think it would be the greatest. Or maybe he just got lucky.

>I got ammo