File:From Plague Doctor to PPE- A Brief History of Pandemic Protection Gear

Tasty footnotes & further resources below. Obviously the particular history of medical dress is not my regular area of expertise, so please accept the information presented in this video as my superficial primary peek into the subject, brought on by a fit of timely curiosity.

Portals to Other Realms: Instagram, for real-time progress: http://www.instagram.com/bernadettebanner (@bernadettebanner) Patreon, for more vloggish and bloggish content: https://www.patreon.com/bernadettebanner Prints & merch of design sketches: https://www.redbubble.com/people/bertiebanner/shop

For business enquiries, please contact my representation at: bernadette@helmtalentgroup.com Requests for personal dressmaking commissions are not considered at this time.

FOOTNOTES: [1] https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2017/05/10/john-of-ephesus-describes-the-justinianic-plague/ [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/health/01plague.html [3] https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2017/05/10/john-of-ephesus-describes-the-justinianic-plague/ [4] https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Leviticus.13:4%E2%80%9313:5 [5] https://www.history.com/news/pandemics-end-plague-cholera-black-death-smallpox [6] https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-word-quarantine/ [7] https://www.cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/229?collection=37&page=2 [8] An illustration from the 'Romance of Alexander' in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/clothes-infected-by-the-black-death-being-burnt-in-medieval-news-photo/106671080?adppopup=true [9] “Journal of the Plague Year” by Daniel Defoe, 1665 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376 [10] Christine M. Boeckl, Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology (Truman State University Press, 2000), pp. 15, 27. [11] https://books.google.com/books?id=KxutCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT92&dq=black+plague+beak+masks+Charles+de+Lorme&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD5cXyvdzWAhUn64MKHVFuCNcQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false [12] On Miasma Theory: https://dc.cod.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1657&context=essai [13] ‘Modern human history’ is defined as ‘History up to the present day, [beginning] from some arbitrary point taken to represent the end of the Middle Ages.’ (https://www.lexico.com/definition/modern_history) Or, beginning roughly from when the English-speaking world graduated from Middle English (‘Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote the droughte of March hath perced to the roote…’ -The Canterbury Tales, c. 14th c) to what we now recognise today as Modern English. Yes, technically Shakespeare was speaking the same Modern English (ok, ‘Early Modern English’) that we speak today. Basically this is to say that ‘Modern human history’ does not include the 14th century black plague, which likely would have out-killed the 1918 flu pandemic. [14] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm [15] https://www.britannica.com/science/germ-theory [16] https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/records/washington-dc-directive-l.jpg [17] A period photo of a poster issued by Alberta's Provincial Board of Health alerting the public to the 1918 influenza epidemic. The poster gives information on the Spanish flu, and instructions on how to make a mask. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#/media/File:SpanishFluPosterAlberta.png [18] Soap advertisements from the Manchester Guardian archives https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/gallery/2020/mar/12/soap-saves-lives-adverts-in-the-guardian-after-the-spanish-flu-outbreak [19] https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/materials/public/ElectronMicroscope/EM_HistOverview.htm [20] https://nursing.cuanschutz.edu/about/news/CU-nursing/colorado-nurse-diary-recounts-spanish-flu [21] Fit test footage © Sewstine, used with permission. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZBbkn-g-vE [22] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_the_Efficacy_of_Homemade_Masks_Would_They_Protect_in_an_Influenza_Pandemic?fbclid=IwAR0LhnWB7MlKtMc2A41z0CX-a8_zBThTMXkzW8ptkL3-LuTlRKIEb27SrJ8 [23] https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/04/14/emergency-room-doctor-coronavirus


 * Due to character cutoff, image and music credits continued at https://bernadettebanner.co.uk/from-plague-doctor-to-ppe-a-history-of-pandemic-protection. **