The physician's challenge is the curing of disease, educating the people in the laws of health, and preventing the spread of plagues and pestilences. |
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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in different places. |
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The pestilences and plagues of the 14th century had bred an inordinate fear of death, which led to the exploitation of simple people by a church that was, in effect, offering salvation for sale. |
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The great relisher of London's dark crevices now can't stop mentioning his wife Anna, his beloved companion through decades of burglaries and rat infestations and other pestilences. |
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Those fiscal difficulties that we had with SARS, mad cow and all those other plagues and pestilences, as the minister has described, will be rippling through our 2004-05 fiscal year. |
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