Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is a tradition aboard battleships in the British Navy, as old as wearing white kid gloves and a frock coat on watch and drinking the King's health in port, that Admirals are almost never guilty. Since 1687 only eight British Admirals have been haled before courts martial...
The long record of the short life of St. Francis of Assisi is full of his physical ailments. But not until lately did any doctor of medicine have the interest, ambition, leisure and opportunity to collate all the Saint's recorded symptoms and from them make a diagnosis of...
St. Francis' eye ailment probably was trachoma, an ancient Egyptian affliction. For it St. Francis' physicians applied eye bindings, salves, plasters and urina virginis pueri, the sovereign eye wash which later became the favorite collyrium of that great medieval Spanish ophthalmologist who became Pope John XXI. In final...
Recognizing the complications of St. Francis' malaria, however, fills Historian Hartung with greater pride. The malaria was the quartan type and gave the Saint a chill every four days during the last twelve years of his life. No doctor attempted to treat this disease. St. Francis' stomach, spleen...
And one day, while on a lonely mountain, the Stigmata of the Crucifixion glowed darkly on St. Francis' hands and feet. Although no medical realist has ever before been able to confute satisfactorily the Miracle of the Stigmata, Historian Hartung brashly declares: