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Definition of Quarantines
1. quarantine [v] - See also: quarantine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarantines
Literary usage of Quarantines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Health of Nations: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick by Edwin Chadwick, Benjamin Ward Richardson (1887)
"ORIGINAL DEFENCES BY quarantines. WHY DISCARDED. " Those of the old routine were
for the outer defences by strict quarantines, and, when these defences were ..."
2. The Health of Nations: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick by Edwin Chadwick, Benjamin Ward Richardson (1887)
"ORIGINAL DEFENCES BY quarantines. WHY DISCARDED. " Those of the old routine were
for the outer defences by strict quarantines, and, when these defences were ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... years, day, and quarantines. The penitential canons may be divided into three
classes corresponding to the penitential discipline of the East, of Rome, ..."
4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"Meantime additional legislation might enlarge its powers and duties in the
management of quarantines, until it might attain, first, to a supervisory, and, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"Article, quarantines. By Dr. LÉON COLIN, Principal Physician of the Army, Professor
of Epidemiology in the School of Val-de-Grace. 2. ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1836)
"... Islamism and its Influence; The Plague, its Causes, Varieties, Progress, and
Treatment; The Non-contagion of that Malady; quarantines and ..."
7. Handbook of Canada by Robert Ramsay Wright, James Mavor (1897)
"There is a medical officer as General Superintendent of Canadian quarantines.
Each Quarantine Station is in the immediate charge of a specially appointed ..."