Manʼs Greatest Victory Over Tuberculosis

Victory over Suffering

Miss Ikin writes from the fulness of her own experience. After years of activity during the War in which she travelled up and down the country lecturing to the Forces on personal problems, both spiritual and domestic, she now finds herself extremely limited in physical ability and unable to walk more than a short distance. Consequently she knows what she is talking about, and she gives many pra...

Victory over Variola ’

Over the past few years, the world has witnessed the final engagement in a long and costly war against smallpox. It now becomes increasingly clear that the war has been won, that smallpox has been totally and we hope irrevocably eliminated from among the plagues of mankind. The last stages of the war were necessarily global-that is, involving cooperation of many nations. The story is unusual in...

Victory Over Pain

This history of anesthesia is the first of a projected series in the history of the sciences to be published by Henry Schuman and is some 338 pages in length including a limited and somewhat casually selected bibliography which is briefly annotated, and an excellent index. The author, Victor Robinson, who occupies the chair of the History of Medicine at Temple University, is well known for his ...

Voting with preferences over margins of victory

This paper analyzes a two-alternative voting model with the distinctive feature that voters have preferences over margins of victory. We study voting contests with a finite as well as an infinite number of voters, and with and without mandatory voting. The main result of the paper is the existence and characterization of a unique equilibrium outcome in all those situations. At equilibrium, vote...

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