Scots artist Frank To opens a new exhibition in Edinburgh of paintings inspired by medieval plague doctors. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP.

Plague! How to prepare for the next pandemic. ... The disease persisted in Europe until the 1700s, always circulating somewhere, killing people off. We speak of it nowadays as history.

Menu features recipes from 1700s including dish that 'cured the plague', sheep's head pie and brain on toast. Papers found in Nostell Priory in Wakefield, West Yorks, detail instructions; ...