title: Trachoma: A Blinding Scourge from the Bronze Age to the Twenty-first Century
author: Hugh R Taylor
description: Trachoma, and the efforts to control it, make a terrific tale. Dr. Hugh Taylor is just the person to tell it. Dr. Taylor is probably the most influential expert in the field, and certainly the most tireless advocate for the WHO's elimination program. This book is a comprehensive tour de force - the story spans centuries from the pharaohs to 2020, and from the laboratory to rural villages. What's more, it reads well......... --Tom Lietman, F.I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco<br /><br />This book, by a leading ophthalmologist who has devoted more than 30 years to research on trachoma, is the first monograph on trachoma - the leading infectious cause of blindness - to have been published since the 1960's. It includes a fascinating account of the history of this ancient disease, detailed descriptions of its clinical features, pathogenesis and treatment, and a critical review of strategies for its control. It looks forward to the prospects for its elimination as a cause of blindness by the year 2020, as proposed by a Global Alliance convened by the World Health Organization. It will be of interest to ophthalmologists, public health and infectious diseases specialists, and all those interested in the history of medicine and the control of infectious diseases. --David Mabey, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine<br /><br />This book is the most comprehensive review of trachoma, a disease that has afflicted mankind for centuries and which continues to cause disabling blindness throughout many countries of the world. Dr. Hugh Taylor captures the history of this disease and the advances that have been made over the years in diagnosis, treatment, and control. The book objectively reviews what is known about the epidemiology and pathogenesis of trachoma and how we can utilize effective interventions including advanements in diagnosis and treatment to limit its spread. This book will become a classic for all scientists and clinicians in helping achieve WHO's plans for trachoma elimination by 2020. --Thomas Quinn, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, Baltimore
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  It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be... Time has been altered, and Sir
  Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is one of the few people who know
  that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which
  Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in
  Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon
  Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection—black
  diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that
  fell to Earth in prehistoric times. His investigation leads to involvement
  with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists
  that he’s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous,
  bloated, and monosyllabic, he’s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known
  to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They
  are soon rioting through the streets of Londo