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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was a black-and-white decorative artist. He was born in 1872 and died in 1898 of tuberculosis. He took up art as a profession at the age of nineteen, and executed a large number of drawings for books and periodicals, showing great technical skill, originality, and disregard of conventionality, with sometimes a tendency towards the repulsive or morbid.
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Edward VI was king of England from 1547 to 1553. He was born in 1537 at Hampton Court and died in 1553. He was the son of Henry VIII by Jane Seymour. Being only nine at his accession a council of regency was formed under his uncle the Earl of Hertford. Edward VI was intellectually precocious (fluent in Greek and Latin, he kept a full journal of his reign) but not physically robust. His short reign was dominated by nobles using the Regency to strengthen their own positions. The King's Council, previously dominated by Henry, succumbed to existing factionalism. On Henry's death, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford and soon to be Duke of Somerset, the new King's eldest uncle, became Protector. Edward Seymour was an able soldier; he led a punitive expedition against the Scots, for their failure to fulfil their promise to betroth Mary, Queen of Scots to Edward, which led to Edward Seymour's victory at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547 - although he failed to follow this up with satisfactory peace terms.
During Edward VI's reign, the Church of England became more explicitly Protestant - Edward VI himself was fiercely Protestant. The Book of Common Prayer was introduced in 1549, aspects of Roman Catholic practices (including statues and stained glass) were eradicated and the marriage of clergy allowed. The imposition of the Prayer Book (which replaced Latin services with English) led to rebellions in Cornwall and Devon.
Despite his military ability, Edward Seymour was too liberal to deal effectively with Kett's rebellion against land enclosures in Norfolk. Edward Seymour was left isolated in the Council and the Duke of Northumberland subsequently overthrew him in 1551. Edward Seymour was executed in 1552, an event which was briefly mentioned by Edward VI in his diary: 'Today, the Duke of Somerset had his head cut off on Tower Hill.'
Northumberland took greater trouble to charm and influence Edward VI; his powerful position as Lord President of the Council was based on his personal ascendancy over the King. However, the young King was ailing. Northumberland hurriedly married his son Lord Guilford Dudley to Lady Jane Grey, one of Henry VIII's great-nieces and a claimant to the throne. Edward VI accepted Lady Jane Grey as his heir and, on his death from tuberculosis in 1553, Lady Jane Grey assumed the throne.
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James Burn Russell was a Scottish doctor. He was born in 1837 at Glasgow and died in 1904. He assisted Lord Kelvin in his preparations for the Atlantic Cable expedition. He was next medical officer of health in Glasgow for twenty-six years, and brought prominently forward the question of the housing of the poor. among his works are 'Lectures on the Theory and Prevention of Infectious Diseases', published in 1879, and 'On the Prevention of Tuberculosis' published in 1896.
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Barbara La Marr was an American actress. She was born in 1896 at Yakima, Washington and died in 1926 of tuberculosis and nephritis.
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Mabel Ethelreid Normand was an American comedy actress. She was born in 1894 at Staten Island, New York and died in 1930 of tuberculosis.
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Renee Adoree (real name Jeanne de la Fonte) was a French actress. She was born in 1898 and died in 1933 of tuberculosis. Originally a Folies Bergeres dancer, she became a Hollywood star of the silent film era.
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Vivien Leigh was an English actress. She was born in 1913 at Darjeeling, West Bengal and died in 1967 of tuberculosis. She was best known for her starring role as 'Scarlett O'Hara' in the 1939 film, 'Gone With The Wind'.
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Actinomycosis or Madura disease (popularly known as lumpy jaw), is a disease due to the ray fungus, and occurs in domestic animals - notably cattle, and occasionally human beings who work with cattle and can become infected. Suppurative swellings develop in certain parts of the body, namely the neck and jaw, the intestines - especially the appendix and large bowel - and the lungs. Secondary abscesses are often formed in other adjacent organs. The pulmonary type of disease resembles chronic bronchitis or tuberculosis and is generally fatal, although the disease runs a long course. In the other types the outlook is more hopeful.
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Adenitis is an inflammation of the lymphatic glands. It may be either acute or chronic. As a rule, adenitis is a symptom of some disease process within the area of the body that is drained by the lymphatic channels in which the affected lymphatic glands are situated. In acute adenitis the disease is usually an infected wound or sore, the invading micro-organisms being carried away by the lymphatics and trapped in the glands, where, in turn, they set up inflammation, causing enlargement of the gland, and sometimes suppuration. Chronic adenitis may be due to a chronic infection, such as tuberculosis. Lymphatic glands are also the seat of secondary cancer, the malignant growth cells being carried along the lymphatic channels from the primary cancer. Lymphadenoma or Hodgkin's disease also causes enlargement of the lymphatic glands.
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Bovine Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of cattle characterised by the formation of tubercules or nodules - small greyish yellow bodies which may exist in almost every organ and give rise to numerous disease processes which vary according to their situation.
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