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welcome to the cotkey ride home for t, January 12th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

The 16th century manual on containing the spread of disease that is eerily reminiscent of current COVID guidelines.

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So this was a quick link on cocky.org that I found fascinating.

It's a 16th century pamphlet with medical advice for controlling epidemics that's eerily

prescient, for the most part.

So in the late 1500s, the port city of Algiero Sardinia was hit with the plague, thanks to an infected

sailor traveling from Marseille. While the outbreak was absolutely devastating to Algaro,

killing about 60% of its population by modern estimates, what's unique is that it was completely

contained within the city borders, barely spreading to nearby regions, and it was eradicated in just eight months.

And that is largely thanks to the work of Quinta Tiberio Angilirio, an upper-class doctor.

Having recently spent time in Sicily during a plague outbreak there, he had a few ideas about how to control the spread.

His proposals faced backlash at every level at first, but as the plague continued to take

its toll on the community, he was eventually allowed to implement various measures, and they worked.

Towards the end of his life, he collected his mostly successful measures in a booklet

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