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Duke, Pietro Leopoldo, as being 'a cause of bitterness, 

 dissatisfaction and vexation/ 



"In 1767 the State of Lucca passed similar laws, in 

 which the rules for cleansing and disinfection that had 

 to be adopted in cases of death from phthisis were set 

 forth in minutest detail. 



"In 1772 the Guardians of the Public Health of 

 Pesaro asked the corresponding officials at Venice for 

 advice concerning the disposal of the clothes of per- 

 sons who had died of phthisis. The latter referred this 

 question to their Protomedico, Giambattista Paitoni, 

 and he replied in a monograph in which he held that 

 in the course of a long experience he had seen many 

 evil effects from the neglect of necessary precautions 'to 

 protect one against a disease of such a nature/ He 

 recommended that all things used by consumptives 

 should be dealt with in the same manner as in the case 

 of 'contagious pestilential influences/ He laid special 

 stress on the importance of taking care that the clothes 

 of a consumptive should not fall into the hands of 

 'filthy and miserly second-hand dealers, who then sell 

 them again with impunity, thus trafficking in the health 

 of men/ 



"On the strength of the opinion of health officers the 

 Venetian government issued an ordinance, December 

 24, 1772, to the effect that no one in any part of Vene- 

 tian territory should, 'under any pretext whatever sell, 

 or in any way part with or dispose of, receive or pur- 

 chase clothes or other effects, which had been used by 

 persons suffering from phthisis, unless they had first 



