But the truth behind this creepy costume will shock you! Discover the medically obsolete Miasma theory and the haunting history of the Plague Doctor. Putin says Russia in favor of ceasefire ...

Even by the start of the 19th century, people had all sorts of crazy ideas about where disease came from, such as the theory of miasma, which claimed that diseases were caused by foul-smelling air ...

Gasps all round. The miasma devotees were outraged, but Snow was committed to proving his theory with detailed investigation and evidence-gathering. In 1854, 700 people died from cholera around ...