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This book explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels themselves and the role that gambling played in the lives of the individual novelists. It also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. Following an historical overview, the book comprises individual chapters on: Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and George Moore. Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel not only provides fresh readings of established texts within a distinctive social and cultural context, but is also a comprehensive barometer of the social history of the time as attitudes towards leisure changed. It is essential reading for all those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era. Gambling occurred in all strata of society and was a national pastime. The pursuit of gambling took many forms: from after-dinner cards to pugilism, and indeed Stock Exchange transactions were considered by many to be gambling at its worst. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more

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This is a bibliography of books about leprosy, with annotations. ... Read more

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Great strides have been made in the last ten years in the immunology and chemotherapy of leprosy which have altered concepts of epidemiology and control. Animal models of leprosy have added materially to knowledge of the transmission of leprosy. There is also a better understanding of the physical and psychological disabilities endured by leprosy patients. The stigma of the disease however, remains fully entrenched in many parts of the world, and still separates patients with leprosy from their fellow men. This work sets out to provide a basic knowledge and explanation of leprosy for students in developing countries and for doctors and scientists elsewhere, who want an introduction to the disease and the problems it continues to pose. Five chapters of this edition have been extensively revised, and a new chapter added on mycobacterium laprae itself. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: J. & A. Churchill in 1896 in 287 pages; Subjects: Leprosy; History / General; Medical / Infectious Diseases; ... Read more

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A prophetic voice diagnosing the spiritual condition of the 21st century Church and prescribing the Balm in Gilead poised to cleanse and heal it in end-time revival. Spiritual check-up included. ... Read more

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Truth
This is an excellent book.I bought several copies and distributed them to friends/acquaintances and sent one to my sister in England who requested more copies for distribution.The book accurately describes the church of the 21st Century. It causes even the reader to check his or her heart out to determine where they really are with the Lord. It is refreshing to know there are still "some genuine servants" of the Lord (though very few in number)in ministry for the right reasons.A very powerful book by a very annointed woman with the Spirit of understanding and wisdom; counsel and power; Knowledge and fear of the Lord, raised up by the Spirit of the Lord for such a time as this.I highly recommend this book and her tape(s) on Repairing the Temple, Leprosy in the Church and The Ashes of a red heifer.You will be blessed by the Spirit of the Lord pouring through this humble but bold vessel of the Lord. She is a blessing to the body of Christ.

Doctor' visit
This was an blatant in your face prognosis of the state of the church today.The diagnosis was not given without giving the reader a prescription that they could take to help cure the problem.She is an awesome writer and also takes you through so much history of the Bible in a short span.

A Spiritual Daughter of Juanita Bynum
Go to her website (Morrison Ministries) and purchase the video "Leprosy in the Church", it will have you on your knees crying out to GOD!!!She preached this at Juanita Bynum's Weapons of Power Conference and it was awesome.I highly recommend anything she puts out!!! She is truly anointed!!!!!

Leprosy in the Church
This book has come to CRY LOUD and SPARE NOT!It reveals the condition of today's chruch.It is powerful, prolific and the unadulteratrd Word of GOD. ... Read more

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Although the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of what some described as a national epidemic of "drug addiction" could be found in both medical journals and the popular press. Today, nearly a century and a half later, the term is so commonplace we speak of people being "addicted" to just about anything. Yet as Timothy A. Hickman argues in this revealing interdisciplinary study, the meaning of addiction has always been as much cultural as scientific and never fixed.

In The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days, Hickman resituates the idea of addiction within its original late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century context. Through close readings of a broad range of literary, medical, and legal texts, he shows how Americans of that era conceptualized the dangers of drug addiction in terms of other preoccupations and fears. Anxieties about the accelerating pace of technological change, the loss of personal autonomy, and the degeneration of society attributed to both foreign influences and a decline of manliness all fed into a widespread sense of cultural crisis-a crisis of which the spiraling "drug problem" was seen as both contributing cause and consequence. Not surprisingly, Hickman points out, deeply held assumptions of class, race, and gender also figured into the popular understanding of addiction. While white middle-class addicts were often depicted as helpless victims of the social and economic pressures of modern life, their less privileged and nonwhite counterparts were regarded as morally weak.

Over time the distinction between "addict as patient" and "addict as criminal" came to be accepted by the emerging medical establishment and codified into law, eventually finding expression in the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, the first national anti-narcotic legislation in the history of the United States-and the basis for much thinking about addiction and drug policy ever since. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Longmans, Green in 1873 in 206 pages; ... Read more

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This established handbook, now with dual authorship, has been revised again to take into account increasing knowledge and experience of all apsects of this worldwide disease. It contains a concise description of leprosy and its management, an expanded section on antileprosy drugs, multidrug therapy and differential diagnosis, and a new chapter on leprosy control and fieldwork which is relevant to endemic regions of the world. Dr McDougall who is new to this edition, is editor of the journal "Leprosy". ... Read more

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THE LEPROSY OF MIRIAM - U. Gestsfeld - BY URSULA N. GESTEFELD - 1894 - FOREWORD - IN the Jewish history of the Old Testament is found a people which has come out from an environment made hateful by generations of bondage, and has set its face toward a promised land of freedom. Their journey of the Children of Israel illustrates the progress of the human soul, which is to outgrow the bondage of the flesh and reach the freedom of the spirit. It is typical of the individual and universal developmellt recognized to-day as the continuity of evolution, which, crossing the line of demarcation between shapes and souls, is to some time bring the highest species of the genus Man. In this journey the people, though they have triumphed gloriosly, are halted for a season through what befalls Miriam. For having spoken against Moses, she is stricken with leprosy and shut out from the camp, and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. The progress of the human race is limited............ ... Read more

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Where did I leave my feet again?
Boy, did I have insensitive feet. Mine were always telling me I was overweight, criticising my clothes (I happen to like orange) and generally using every opportunity to reduce me to tears with their spiteful comments.

That said, revenge has been sweet...so, so sweet. Paul Brand's book unwittingly solved my dysmorphic disorder by reminding me of limb-eating properties of leprosy. Admittedly, it was difficult to catch and the incubation period long but now my foot problems are reduced to which room to leave them in when I go out. ... Read more

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This is neither an official history nor the whole story of the hospital on Gemo Island, or of the management of tuberculosis and leprosy in Papua New Guinea. It is personal recollections and involvement during the most enriching years of my life. Many more people were associated with the hospital than I have been able to include here and some will have clearer memories and different interpretations. Some aspects of the history are already in print. However the Gemo story is worth preserving as it has a small but important place in the evolution of health care in Papua New Guinea. ... Read more

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Leprosy And Its Prevention - 1890 - PREFACE - DURING several visits to Norway, in recent years, I have had many opportunities of obsersing cases of leprosy, and of studying the forms and clinical features of the disease as it appears in that cauntry. I have noticed, with deep satisfaction, the steady dimnution in the number of cases, as shown by trustworthy statistics, and I have made inquiry into the causes which Iave produced so desirable a resuIt. The little work, which I now offer to the profession, contains many facts which came under my notice when prosecuting these investigations and.......... ... Read more