Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice By the Magistrate of the Office of Health, for the Preservation of Publick Health

Anonymous· 2 chapters· 8,144 words

The Office of Health is furnished with such ample Power and Authority, as makes it at once useful and respectable; it is administered by the Subjects of the Republick most eminent for their Prudence, Dignity and Talents; it is furnished with Abundance of Officers, a few of who...

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1. Part 1

The Office of Health is furnished with such ample Power and Authority, as makes it at once useful and respectable; it is administered by the Subjects of the Republick most emine...

2. Part 2

To say something of the more general Duties to which the _Priors_ are obliged: They keep all the Keys, as well of every Gate which gives Entrance into the _Lazarettos_, (which i...