Maritime quarantine
Subtitle: the British experience, c.1650-1900
By: John Booker.
Series: The history of medicine in context
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754661788
Subjects: Quarantine -- Great Britain -- History; Communicable diseases -- Great Britain -- Prevention -- History; Naval hygiene -- Great Britain -- History; Quarantine -- history -- Great Britain; History, 17th Century -- Great Britain; History, 18th Century -- Great Britain; History, 19th Century -- Great Britain; Naval Medicine -- history -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The seventeenth century; title: Menace from the Baltic: policy and procedure; title: Menace from the Baltic: mercantile worries; title: The French infection; title: Meddling in the Mediterranean; title: Messina and the aftermath; title: Elusive aspirations; title: Foul-bill dilemma; title: Painful progress; title: Kentish fiasco; title: Malta: war, peace and plague; title: The disbelievers; title: Mediterranean misery; title: Countdown to cholera; title: Trying to confer; title: A stubborn demise.