Books by John Booker

This book provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to forty days in a `lazarettö to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. It will appeal to all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Examines the methods by which British authorities sought to keep their territories free from contagious diseases, and the reactions to, and practical consequences of, these policies. This study provides a picture of attitudes to trade, culture, politics and medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.