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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.

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