The early history of quarantine : origin of sanitary measures directed against yellow fever / by J.M. Eager.

  • J. M. Eager
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1903
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    Delegates were present from France, Austria, the two Sicilies, Spain, the Roman States, Greece, Portugal, and Turkey. England was not signatory. Regulations were adopted much less restrictive than former ones, it being admitted that the efficacy of many measures formerly practiced was doubtful or negative, science having proclaimed that, for the most part, pestilential maladies are not contagious. This surpris- ing declaration was followed by a revolution in quarantine methods on the Continent and resulted in the general adoption of practices based on the limited communicability of epidemic diseases. ‘These changes, with which the early history of quarantine closes, were brought into effect at the beginning of the new era, during which the doctrine of specific living causes of epidemic diseases have been built up on the substantial basis of experimental medicine. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. For assistance in collecting data for the early history of quarantine, _ acknowledgments are due to Dr. Enrico Buonocore, of Naples, and to the librarians of the public libraries of Naples and Palermo. BIBLIOGRAPHY. [The whole title-page of many of the works consulted and some subtitles are given because of the interest attaching to the writings as documents in which the early history of quarantine is pre- served.] Historiz Ecclesiasticee Scriptores Greci. Colonize Allobrogrum. Petrus de la Rouviére. MVCXII. Book III. Chap.,X XVIII. Evagrii Scholastici Epipha- niensis et ex preefectis oriundi. Historize Ecclesiasticee. De pestilente morbo. Jacobi Foroliviensis, medici singularis. Expositio et questiones in primum cano- nem Avicenne & Venetiis, 1547. I Can: Fen: 2. Doctr. I. Chap. 8. Ovid. Metamorfosi. Lib: VII. . Procopii (Czesariensis). De bello Persico. Raphzelem Volaterranum conversus. Rome apud Iacobum Mazochium. Romanze Academie Bibliopolam. Anno MDXVI. Die XXIX, mensis Februari. Triumphante Divo Leone X Ponti- fice Massimo. Anno ejus tertia. Lib: II. De novo genere pestilentiz (an: 534). Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores. Vol. 18. Milan, 1731. The edict of Reg- gio d’ Emilio is found on page 82, letter D, year 1374. Tractatus singularis doctissimi viri Marsilii Ficini de epidemize morbo, ex italico in latinum versus. Cum privilegio imperial. Auguste Vindelicorum in Sigis- mundi Grim Medici et Marci Vuyrsung officina excusoria. Anno virgine partus MDX VIII. Joannis Baptista Van Helmont. Ortus Medicine id est Initia Physic inaudita. Progressus Medicinee novus. In morborum ultionem ad vitam longam: Lug- duni. Sumptibus Joannis Baptistae Devenet. In Vico Merecatorio. Sub signo Crucis aurexe. 1640. Tumulus pestis. Honorati Fabri, 8. J. Tractus duo. Quorum prior est de Plantis et de generatione animalium. Posterior de Homine. Parisiis. Apud Franciscum Muget, Regio ac Illustriss: Archiepiscopi Parisiensis Typographum, ad insigne Adorationis trium Regum. 1666. Cum privilegio et permissu.. De Homine. Liber VI. Propositio XII. Page 38. Explicantur ea quee pertinent ad febres.
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