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Delegates were present from France, Austria, the two Sicilies, Spain, 

 the Roman States, Greece, Portugal, and Turkey. -England was not 

 signatory. Regulations were adopted much less restrictive than former 

 ones, it being admitted that the efficacy of many measures formerly 

 practiced was doubtful or negative, science having proclaimed that, for 

 the most part, pestilential maladies are not contagious. This surpris- 

 ing declaration was followed by a revolution in quarantine methods on 

 the Continent and resulted in the general adoption of practices based 

 on the limited communicability of epidemic diseases. These changes, 

 with which the early history of quarantine closes, were brought into 

 effect at the beginning of the new era, during which the doctrine of 

 specific living causes of epidemic diseases have been built up on the 

 substantial basis of experimental medicine. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



For assistance in collecting data for the early history of quarantine, 

 acknowledgments are due to Dr. Enrico Buonocore, of Naples, and 

 to the librarians of the public libraries of Naples and Palermo. 



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