The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
Peoples & Things
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The Lazarus Closing in 1895
In my book I spent a bit of time examining the work of Dr. W. T. Robinson, who was in a sense the hero of my book because he's a physician and a quarantine. And he was also an amateur historian who began writing a history. He never was able to finish it, but he, he serialized it in the newspaper, he ran. It was a newspaper, newspaper publisher and physician and Lazaretto physician for five years.
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