![]() ![]() The man looked at the now-dead doctor and had the idea to steal the doctor's garments and disguise himself as a doctor to scam people and gain money for his family. Suddenly he saw an actual plague doctor riding a horse near his house before falling in front of him and succumbing to the plague. We All Fall Down".ĭuring the time of the black plague, SCP-049 was just a simple poor man living in a village with his wife and daughter. He is voiced by TheVolgun in his original article and in the game SCP: Containment Breach.īiography Possible Origins Ashes. SCP-049 also serves as a major antagonist in SCP: Containment Breach, a playable character in SCP: Secret Laboratory, and will appear in a major role in the upcoming SCP: Secret Files. He was one of the many characters used in the "SCP OCT" contest. SCP-049 plays a major role in "Death and the Doctors", "The Hanged King's Comedy", "Cack" and "Altitudes" series. He is obsessed with curing every person he encounters of a mysterious "pestilence" only he is aware of, by turning those people into zombies. He is a humanoid figure that resembles a 15-16th century European Plague Doctor, with a black robe and a white-beaked mask. He is a Euclid-class object under the Foundation's containment. SCP-049, also referred to as the Plague Doctor, is a major character in the SCP Foundation series. ~ SCP-049's inner monologue from "Surgery". A surgeon he was, the Surgeon he was, and he was the one to figure out what life was, what it was really all about. Life was an ever-multiplying beast, and in his profession, such creatures had only one name. A bundle of contradicting impulses, cruel desires, and nonsensical emotions. Plague Doctors have become figures of impending doom and representations of death, disease and medical malpractice, many villages actually dreaded the visit of plague doctor(s) despite their good intentions, some even believed plague doctors were harbingers of disease and death rather than the supposed cure.Life was a burden on those who carried its loathsome spark upon their souls. as it was believed that bad smells or “miasma” was responsible for disease and that good smells could word off or even cure disease. Plague Doctors are most well known for their attire, most notably their eerie, bird-like masks that were modeled after the skulls of ravens and were filled with aromatic items such as dried flowers, herbs, ambergris, myrrh etc. It is unclear where plague doctors truly came from, but it is believed that they were employed by European royalty to attend to peasants who were too poor to afford real medical service and to record death tolls once the bubonic plague started to spread. Many plague doctors weren’t even actual physicians, but instead volunteers, peasants needing work or even “quack” physicians that lacked actual medical licenses but wanted to practice medicine regardless. Plague Doctors practiced everything from bloodletting, aromatherapy, chemistry (via the creation of “snake oil” serums and potions) to even surgery in a futile attempt to cure disease. Plague Doctors practiced many forms of pseudoscience in order to cure the bubonic plague and other prevalent diseases such as leprosy during a time when medical science was in its infancy. The user is a Plague Doctor, a physician from the dark ages, specifically medieval Europe that treated those infected with the bubonic plague during epidemics, rarely curing them due to a poor understanding of how diseases work during the time and were instead mostly used to record death tolls for demographic purposes.
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