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The plague doctor outfit as we know it was invented in the seventeenth century by Charles de Lorme, a man that early modern historian Estelle Paranque describes in an article for
Art UK as being “a talented physician who treated thousands of people during the reigns of three different French kings.” This means that de Lorme’s sartorial creation was a few centuries too late to be medieval, and while it was indeed designed for doctors caring for patients with the bubonic plague, “the Black Death” refers specifically to the pandemic that occurred in the mid-fourteenth century. But was the outfit really as crude as modern popular conception makes it out to be?
A tattoo in his memory covers Last-Kolb s forearm. Jeremy Blaze, the artist who drew it, knew her son very well and had tattooed him in the past. The tattoo represents who he was, a little bit about the tattoos he had on himself, Last-Kolb says.
Last-Kolb s tattoo of her son s first name includes a rose, a black ribbon, angel wings and a cross, all symbols that fascinated Jessie. The tattoo is done in black ink, like the ones he had. (Radja Mahamba/Radio-Canada)
Tattoos were important in Jessie s life, she says. The night he died, he was going to get a new one.
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Early on in the pandemic, the hope of better days following the first wave offered a light at the end of the tunnel for some Canadians, says Dr. Jackie Kinley. But in the midst of a second wave alongside the threat of more dangerous COVID-19 variants that hope is waning. What we re starting to see is people are being worn down, said Kinley, a Halifax-based psychologist and resilience expert
, who warns the pandemic could have a lasting impact on Canadians mental health. I really see people now feeling more numb, more detached, more demoralized.
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