ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the experiences of the employed to work in medical roles in the Venetian lazaretti as well as the medical treatments which were administered to patients. It describes the elements of medical care which were provided within the lazaretti and explain why contemporaries believed they would be effective. Many of the medical treatments of the lazaretti are similar to those of other early modern hospitals and the medicine available in the early modern city and these will be used as points of comparison. Medicine on the lazaretti was specific, however, in terms of the scale on which treatments had to be produced and administered. In addition to standard elements of early modern medicine, new cures were tried and tested in the lazaretti. These cures were marketed as medical secrets. Many were unsuccessful but a few were remarkably effective in responding to the plague.
