An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice: By the Magistrate of the Office of Health, for the Preservation of Publick HealthAnonymous
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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
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Plague -- Italy -- Venice; Public health administration -- Italy -- Venice; Public health laws -- Italy -- Venice
Therefore ’tis necessary to say somewhat of that. Wooll and Woollen Goods
are the chief Things, of which two Sorts arrive: One Sort is called _Lane
Succide_, because they come just as they were taken from the Animals when
shorn: The others are called _Lane Pelate_, i. e. such as are taken from
the Hide of the Animal when dead, by the Means of Lime. Both of them
are put _à Monte_, which is a Form mentioned before. Putting Things _à
Monte_, is as much as to say, taking them out of the Bags or Cases they
were in, and laying them in Heaps of about Four Feet high, with some
Distance between each Heap, that they may the better be come at to be
handled: And the handling of them, consists in removing them from one
Place to another every Day; in often stirring them, and heaping them up
again in the same Manner; so that at the End of the Forty Days, there
be a Certainty that no Lock of the Wooll has been untouched. All the
Wooll may be treated in the same Manner; but the first Sort is usually
examined with the greater Care; for as they consist of the Fleece, that
is, of the entire Wooll as taken from the Body of the Animal, they
are most carefully searched, Thread by Thread; and thus, at the same
Time that they are purified, they are also cleaned. By which Care, the
Proprietors of them save the Pains and Trouble they must afterwards have
been at to cleanse them. And this Care is also sufficient, and especially
as at the Time of putting them again in the Bags, another Tryal is made.
The same Form is observed for all Silks, Linnens, Raw Silks, Ferret,
Ribond, and such like, emptying them in a scattered Manner in Heaps, and
then Bale by Bale separately, handling them twice a Day, and every Week
removing them to another Place.
Other Goods, such as Cottons, Thread, Camels Hair, and Castor, which come
in Bags, are differently purified; for the Bags are unsowed from one End
to another in the Middle, and so they are left open for Half the Time
of Quarantine, that is, for the Space of Twenty Days, being every Day
handled by the _Bastazi_, who put in their naked Arms in all Parts of
them, as they are moved daily, so that no Part of them can be unhandled.
The Twenty Days being expired, in which is not included the Day they were
opened, the Sacks are turned, and unsowed on the other Side, and they are
handled in the same Manner, till the Expiration of the Forty Days, in
which is not reckoned the Day they were turn’d; for which Ceremony, there
are required a Notice from the _Prior_, and a particular Order from the
Magistrate; and this being done, they set about sowing them up again, and
they are accounted clean.
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