Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grace Dunmore is represented as a masterful woman who cannot get along with only one husband. She sees her latest flame, Bobby Brandon, leading a gay night life and ignoring her. Jealous, she gets a Doctor to convince Brandon he is in a serious condition of health, and that he must settle down and keep better hours. She sends for Brandon's nephew, together with the latter's fiancee and her mother, to come from Kamm's Corners, and keep Bobby out of mischief. They come, but instead of converting Bobby to family life they are all converted...
Gulian falls in love with Vida Prendergast, who is unhappily married to Sydney Prendergast, son, of Father Eyre's partner. But just as that affair shows signs of becoming dangerous, Gulian learns that his father's health is in a grave condition-"any sudden shock would kill him." Vida will not divorce her husband and partly on account of his father's condition, Gulian will not consider any other arrangement. So the affair ends...
Publications destroyed were: Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, The Christian Science Hymnal, the Unitarian Leader, Forbush's Life of Christ, books by Pastor Russell, and a magazine, Unity...
Leprosy never springs up de novo; it is always the result of direct contact. Children of lepers are born free of taint and can grow up in perfect health. By isolation of lepers, western Europe freed itself from the curse of the Middle Ages...
...Good general health, cleanliness, suitable work and exercise, fresh air and healthy surroundings, abundant fresh and well adapted food not taken to excess, a healthy, happy mind not oppressed by care or unnecessary anxiety, are precisely the forces in the presence of which leprosy cannot live...