Lazarettos

Known as: Lazaretto

Buildings or ships used for quarantine detention.

National Institutes of Health

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2017

Abstract The idea of building hospitals to fight contagion was born with the lazarettos. At the time when the microorganisms were…

2016

Ottomans divided Nicosia into twelve districts after dominating it in 1570 A.D. These districts were named after the twelve…

2015

The authors are academic geographers interested in spatial statistics identifying geographical factors that cause diseases to be…

2014

In the nineteenth century, maritime quarantine officials often paid more attention to ships’ cargo than they did to the health of…

2013

2003

Since the 1920s, the medical community realized that the strategy of leprosy control based on segregation and persecution of…

2002

As imperialist nations rediscovered leprosy in their colonial world in the late nineteenth century, Colombian physicians found…

1993

: During the Black Death's reign in the fifteenth century, a number of installations providing care for lepers were converted…

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1988

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1988

Lithostratigraphic units are described in terms of their stratigraphic associations. These include an eastern Gulf of Mexico…

1984

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