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"This book tells the compelling story of public health efforts in 19th-century Philadelphia directed at preventing the outbreak of epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases. It is a story about quarantine set against the background of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, the first quarantine house built in the United States, and one of the largest in the world"--

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"This book tells the compelling story of public health efforts in 19th-century Philadelphia directed at preventing the outbreak of epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases. It is a story about quarantine set against the background of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, the first quarantine house built in the United States, and one of the largest in the world"--
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David Barnes (PHILADELPHIA, PA) is an associate professor of the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs.