AN AUTHENTICK ACCOUNT OF THE Measures and Precautions USED AT _VENICE_, BY THE MAGISTRATE of the Office of HEALTH, FOR THE PRESERVATION of the PUBLICK HEALTH. _LONDON_: Printed by EDWARD OWEN in _Warwick-Lane_. 1752. [Illustration] AN AUTHENTICK ACCOUNT OF The MEASURES and PRECAUTIONS used at _VENICE_, by the MAGISTRATE of the Office of HEALTH, for the PRESERVATION of the PUBLICK HEALTH. It is now the Third Century since the following Regulation took its Rise. 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 whom are employed in the Distribution of Orders, and the rest in their Execution. In describing occasionally these different Branches, much Light will be let in upon the Subject. Experience has shewn, that in the _Ottoman_ Dominions the Plague is never utterly extinct: Hence it is an immutable Law with the Magistrate of the Office of Health, to consider the whole Extent of the _Ottoman_ Dominions, and every State dependent on it, as always to be suspected to be in an infected Condition, to such a Degree, as not to receive, in any Part of the Dominions of the Republick, either confining to or commercing with them, any Persons, Merchandizes, Animals, or any other Thing coming from thence, without the necessary Inspection of the Office of Health, and the previous Purifications. To explain myself, I will suppose that a suspected Ship, coming from some Scale of the _Levant_, presents itself at the Mouth of these Ports, and, by describing the Conduct that is observed towards it, I shall shew the Rules that are practised with regard to every Vessel, coming from any Part of the World, that is either infected, or suspected to be so.