History of the plague doctor4/29/2023 So why did this task rarely fall to men? It’s probably because women had traditionally taken charge of the deceased – washing, shaving and dressing a person’s corpse ready for burial. The Plague Orders stipulated that each parish elect their own searchers, and that they be women of “honest reputation”. Searchers were women given the task of inspecting corpses, and reporting, “to the utmost of their knowledge”, what exactly had killed them. When the plague-nurses could do no more for an infected patient, it was time for the ‘searchers’ to move in.
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