Quarantine
Cuarentena sanitaria
- Date
- 1377 · confidence high
- Place
- Ragusa (Dubrovnik), Croatia
- Credited to
- Great Council of Ragusa (a trentino of 30 days; Venice, 40 days, in 1448)
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
The compulsory isolation of ships and travellers from plague-stricken areas for 30–40 days before entering the city. The first institutional public-health measure against epidemics.
What it led to
- the lazarettos and health offices of the Italian cities
- sanitary control at borders and ports
- modern public health and the theory of contagion
Built on
- Canon of Medicine and drug testing rules1025
- Canon of Medicine and drug testing rules
- experience of the Black Death (1347-1351)
Made possible
- lazaretto
- board of health