Note 177 — OF QUARANTINE, LAZARETTOS, AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS OF PLAGUE POLICE.

See Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkener’s Treasise on the Plague. The remarkable fact, mentioned by Dr. Samoilowitz, that all the assistant Surgeons in the hospitals at Moscow took the Plague, while the Physicians who only walked among the sick, but carefully avoided contact, generally escaped, affords a strong proof of the greater facility with which actual contact communicates the infection. This work of Dr. Samoilowitz (sur la Peste) has more than a hundred pages filled with proofs of its contagious influence; Dr. Granville also, in his examination before the Committee of the House of Commons, gave some very interesting instances, in which the poison could only have been conveyed by touch.