ROY PORTER, Disease, Medicine and Society in England 1550-1860, Studies in Economic and Social History for the Economic History Society, Basingstoke and London, Macmillan Education, 1987, 8vo, pp. 79, £3.95 (paperback). In this thought-provoking and eloquent survey (intended largely as an introductory text for students and teachers) Roy Porter has examined a number of interconnected themes in t...

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her perspectives to offer a broader account of the disease which provided the vehicle for her investigation. Did other American cities follow New York's example? How widespread were such concentrated preventive campaigns against the disease? How did the anti-diphtheria campaign intersect with preventive action against smallpox? Was such an apparently intense focus on one disease really achieved...

Sixty-six Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains (62 of the gravis biotype and 4 of the mitis biotype) isolated during the Georgian diphtheria epidemic of 1993 to 1998 and 13 non-Georgian C. diphtheriae strains (10 Russian and 3 reference isolates) were characterized by (i) biotyping, (ii) toxigenicity testing with the Elek assay and PCR, (iii) the randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) techniq...

drowning drunks in the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century is nicely complemented by Roy Porter's overview of the free market in medicine in Georgian England, in which elite physicians could not resist picking up their share of the profits of household pharmacy. Hilary Marland's discussion of the late entry of women into Dutch medicine highlights the almost total neglect of paediatrics...

Phraseological units of two languages, in particular, Russian and Georgian, containing a religious component, despite the fact that speakers these languages belong to same religion, are not identical. The article analyzes comparative phraseological with component-religion Georgian languages; thematic classification religions is presented; we attempted analyze similarities differences representa...

1 Overview of the Georgian Telecommunication sector 1.1 Comparative metrics of an existing condition in the telecommunication sector in Georgia The comparative data for the Georgian telecommunication sector are given in the table 1. Georgia Low income countries Europe World Fixed line telephony Main telephone lines (k), 2000 860 Main telephone lines per 100 inhabi-The market of communication se...