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Plague hospitals : public health for the city in early modern Venice

Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth study of the Venetian lazaretti in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book asks what these hospitals can tell us about early modern medicine and society.
eBook, English, ©2012
Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, England, ©2012
History
1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
9780754697510, 9781409471103, 9781315600680, 9781317080282, 0754697517, 1409471101, 1315600684, 1317080289
813993704
"From a Distance It Looks Like a Castle" : First Impressions and Architectural Design
The Sick-Poor
"Abandon Hope, All You Who Enter Here" : Experiences of the Staff and the Patients' Daily Routine
Syrups and Secrets : Treating the Plague
Dying in the Lazaretti
Returning to the City
Epilogue