Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 - c. 1900

ISBN-13: 9781032050348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

John Booker

Opis

This book provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to forty days in a ‘lazaretto’ to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. It will appeal to all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Reasons, Regimes and Routes  2. Quarantine: the Social Leveller  3. First Impressions  4. Passing the Time  5. Reckoning and Departure  Gazetteer: Quarantine Stations and Lazarettos

O autorze

Dr. John Booker, F.R.Hist.S., is an independent scholar based in Devon.