Journal of Buddhist Ethics 6 (1999): 219 In 1839, Robert Spence Hardy, Methodist missionary to what was then Ceylon, wrote The British Government and the Idolatry of Ceylon, a polemical pamphlet which accused the ruling British authorities of supporting a religion abhorrent to the mind of God because of its idolatry and Ògross superstitionsÓ (Hardy, 1839, p. 46). He was talking of Buddhism. Tha...

a distinct condition, affects the lymphatic glands of the groin, is sometimes associated with constitutional symptoms, and is now believed to be due to a filterable virus, the infection being of genital origin. Inguinal granuloma is a separate entity with no constitutional features, the lesion being a granulomatous ulcer about the genitalia or the skin in the neighbourhood. The condition is met...

Lead poisoning in childhood has been reported mainly from Japan, France, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. Attention is drawn in this paper to the incidence of lead intoxication in childhood in Ceylon, seen and diagnosed within the past three years. Whereas in past reports the principal mode of lead intoxication in childhood has been from ingestion, in the present series inhalati...