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Among the more frequently quoted epidemiological facts in current
public health discussions are: (a) the elderly today represent
about 10% of the population of the industrialized world; (b) the
third world nations are moving in the same direction; (c) the trend
toward a growing proportion of the aged in the world population
will continue over the next few decades; (d) people over 80 now
represent the fa. stest growing sector in North America; (e) in the
elderly, general morbidity - and particularly morbidity of the
central nervous syste- is many times that in the younger
popUlation; (f) 5% of those over 65 years of age and 20% of those
over 80 suffer from some degree of dementia. A global tidal wave of
patients suf fering from Alzheimer's disease (or senile dementia)
is threat ening to engulf us by the year 2000. This disease, which
is, at our present state of knowledge, ir reversible, and other
age-related dementias are perhaps the most sinister forms of any
disability. They deprive their vic tims not only of their physical
capacities but also of their autonomy and their ability to think
and to make decisions for themselves. The future cost of
psychogeriatric diseases in terms of suffering for individuals,
stress for families, demand for manpower, and budgetary
requirements for governments could become astronomical."
The first edition of William A. Guy's "Principles of Forensic
Medicine" was published at the start of Victoria's reign; the final
edition, from which these selections derive, was published towards
the end, just a few years after the Whitechapel horrors had pushed
the emerging science to the forefront of the public's
consciousness. With this guide in hand, a detective could tell
whether the victim had suffocated, drowned, been shot, stabbed, or
struck by lightning, spontaneously combusted, frozen to death or
expired due to starvation - or, as the guide warns, was not dead at
all, but simply in a state of 'suspended animation'. Suggestions
include examining the face of the deceased for an 'expression of
angry resistance', a clear indication of murder, and studying the
demeanour of the nearest and dearest in cases of suspected 'secret
poisoning'. With original woodcuts, case studies and notes on
identifying the corpse and walking the crime scene, "Victorian CSI"
will fascinate lovers of crime fiction and of true crime alike.
Here is a true story of international intrigue, romances,
corruption, graft, and political assassinations, the like of which
has never been written before. It is the story of how different
groups or atheistic- materialistic men have played in an
international chess tournament to decide which group would win
ultimate control of the wealth, natural resources, and man- power
of the entire world. It is explained how the game has reached the
final stage. The International Communists, and the International
Capitalists, (both of whom have totalitarian ambitions) have
temporarily joined hands to defeat Christian-democracy. The
solution is to end the game the International Conspirators have
been playing right now before one or another totalitarian-minded
group imposes their ideas on the rest of mankind. The story is
sensational and shocking, but it is educational because it is the
TRUTH. The author offers practical solutions to problems so many
people consider insoluble.
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Living Hope (Paperback)
William Orr, William Guy
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In the face of frequent and sometimes loose contemporary usage of
the term "born again" (which is the King James Version Bible
rendering of a phrase from John 3:3), the authors attempt to
examine what the New Testament reveals about the process of being
"born from above" (which is a preferable Bible translation of the
Johannine phrase).
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