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Prostatic Disease in Dogs Book Review: American Sanctuary: persecution in other lands—an
Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National issue that dominates today’s
political campaigns just as it
Identity in the Age of Revolution did the one in 1800.
I must admit that, although
By Nils A. Shapiro it was published in 2017, I
I cannot recall ever had never heard of American
enjoying a scholarly work Sanctuary and was fortunate
of early American history so to come across it by accident
interestingly and vividly told, on a table stacked with books
so extraordinarily researched while shopping in a market.
and impressively detailed, Its author, A. Roger Ekirch,
exciting as any novel, and is a professor of history at
as timely in subject as next Virginia Tech, has written four
The prostate is a small gland located near the urinary month’s presidential election! earlier books, received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is widely
bladder of male dogs and produces some of the fluids found The date was September recognized as one of our finest historians.
in semen necessary during breeding. It surrounds the urethra 21, 1797. The event was a The details that enrich this narrative, garnered from
which carries urine from the bladder to the outside world and vicious mutiny by the crew of a British naval vessel, HMS the author’s extraordinary research, add enormously to the
lays beneath the colon. This is why prostatic disease will often Hermione, in the Caribbean off the coast of Puerto Rico. Little overall experience, as do the many contemporary portraits and
result in problems with urination and/or defecation. remembered today, its aftershock was to lead directly to the illustrations from that period.
Enlargement of the prostate gland is common with most election of Thomas Jefferson over the incumbent John Adams as Revolutionary and early American history being one of my
prostatic diseases. This enlargement puts pressure on the president of the United States … and the resulting lasting image
urethra and urination becomes difficult and uncomfortable of America as a sanctuary of freedom for those fleeing from Arts & Entertainment on page 22
and you may begin to see blood in the urine. An affected
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The prognosis for prostatic cancer is usually poor, but
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