Juxtapositions III

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He is a Penitent. The other one is a surgeon.

Plague surgeon and penitent both wearing green robes and hoods.
Left: Pénitent vert, from Bar, J.-C. (1785): Recueil de tous les Costumes des Ordres Religieux et Militaire. Right: Surgeon of the Marseille lazaret in 1819, from Clot-Bey, A.B. (1840): De la Peste observée en Egypte.

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