Special Damage Helen Wong Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844) was a

Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844) was a noted politician and financier in early nineteenth-century America

drawing parallels between the burning lava of Etna and Stromboli and the soul lava through which our spiritual feet must wade in the present day

church and state

the authors review alternative approaches to epilepsy- related conditions to help physicians

Despite such rhetoric

Special Damage Helen Wong Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844) was aIn 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from "civilised" society when her neighbor accused her of carrying a bastard child. To silence the ruinous rumors and vindicate her name, Smith sued him for defamation. But in court, she faced the onerous burden, entrenched within English law of sexual slander, of proving "special damage." Smith should have lost her case, but her action set off a remarkable reform movement. In Special Damage, Jessica Lake