Yes there were masks, but they were not worn for the reason we wear them. They were worn to protect the wearer from the plague. It was thought that if you wore one with a long beak that held herbs that it would protect from getting the plague. Most commonly the doctors wore them.
You might be referring to pictures of doctors who treated patients during the Black Plague, though I would have to have more information to be sure. They believed that the plague came from bad air, and that by filtering the air, or exposing it to something that might modify it (as by making it smell good) they could keep themselves from getting the plague. So they wore funny masks that had long objects over their noses that looked more or less like the beaks of birds, into which they could put something to treat the air they breathed.
No, there was no cure to the black plague in 1347. Doctors of that days were completely unable to find any cure of black plague. They tried to use different cures like- arsenic, cooked onion,crushed emeralds,sitting in the sewers etc. But those didn't work.
The black plague
The plague was carried by rats, who were infested by fleas. As the rats succumbed to the plague, the starving fleas fed on humans infecting them with the plague.
Doctors did exist at the time of the medieval black plague, however, they did not know anything about the cause or treatment of the plague, and were useless. Medical science was extremely primitive at that period of history.
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Pope did not know the reason. Doctors also did not know the reason or cure.
1894
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The bubonic plague was the most common type of plague. Known as the most deadly epidemic ever known. Many doctors believed that bad smells would make the plague go away. Jews had a smaller chance of getting the plague because they owned cats who ate the rats. Fleas landed on and infected rats, which consequently started the plague. Some doctors believed that wine could cure the plague. The plague led into the Renaissance. It wiped out 1/3 of Europe. It took 150 years for Europe to recover. The plague caused the economy to fall.
No one actually cured the plague but some doctors believed that isolation was necessary as it would prevent the disease from being passed around
Many of them were not really doctors, but Black Death doctors that went around doing blood lettind while trying to cure the Plague.
According to the Thief Lord, they were called Birds of Death.
the plague doctor went round houses checking if the residents were feeling alright or if they had any siptoms of the plague. if they did he would give them remidies.
They tried to treat the plague by cutting open the skin and letting the blood leak out. They thought that the blood was the reason for the black boils on the skin.