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    Edinburgh’s Plague Doctor: The True Story

    24th Jun 2019

    Allow us to take you back to the summer of 1645. The worst outbreak of the plague is ravaging Edinburgh. Just to make matters worse it has also taken the life of Edinburgh’s Plague Doctor, John Paulitious. Thousands of people have died. In fact, historians believe that at the height of this plague only 60 men remained to defend the city.

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