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cord-346866-90w4zepx	Bassareo, Pier Paolo	Learning from the past in the COVID-19 era: rediscovery of quarantine, previous pandemics, origin of hospitals and national healthcare systems, and ethics in medicine	2020-08-20		.txt	text/plain	5572	342	62	title: Learning from the past in the COVID-19 era: rediscovery of quarantine, previous pandemics, origin of hospitals and national healthcare systems, and ethics in medicine In that book, the procedure of separating infected from healthy people to prevent leprosy from spreading, according to Mosaic Law was described, (if the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days. 15 Since disease was considered as a divine punishment for sinners, the biblical 40-day period of purification had crossed over into health practices and the term 'quarantine' had great symbolic and religious significance to medieval Christians. 19 20 According to current knowledge, the bubonic plague has an averaged 37-day period from infection to death; therefore, the European quarantines would be highly successful in determining the health of crews from potential trading and supply ships.	./cache/cord-346866-90w4zepx.txt	./txt/cord-346866-90w4zepx.txt