Feline Lymphosarcoma: A Case Report

Lymphosarcoma, a form of lymphatic leukemia, is one of the most common malignant diseases seen in the feline species. It is not a true lymphatic leukemia, but can rarely be differentiated from such histologically. Leukemia is defined as a cytologically distinct malignant disease of lymphoid or heamatopoietic cell lines and tissues

The Rise of the Newspaper

International audienceThis chapter charts changes in the business of news in England and its North American colonies from the early seventeenth century through 1775. Insisting that the “rise of the newspaper” was not inevitable, it discusses a variety of news publications, from handwritten newsletters and broadside ballads to printed newspapers and magazines. The chapter explains how writers, editors, and printers of news adapted to changes in press regulations (including censorship and taxation) and postal distribution. By examining editorial conventions and business strategies in their historical context, it reveals how the newspaper became the primary means of packaging and distributing news during the eighteenth century

What is the History of Media?

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Constructive Misreadings: Adams, Turgot, and the American State Constitutions

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A Satirical News Aggregator in Eighteenth-Century London

International audienceA satirical weekly paper called the Grub-Street Journal ( GSJ 1730–1737) offered an innovative approach to managing the flow of unverified and contradictory reports that accompanied the growth of newspapers in eighteenth-century London. Using the fictional persona of ‘Quidnunc’ (a contemporary term for news addicts), the editor Richard Russel compiled accounts of the same event from several newspapers and juxtaposed them on the page, thereby revealing their similarities and differences. Russel’s manual version of news ‘aggregation’ exposed errors and contradictions, but it also provided readers with details that would have otherwise required consulting several sources. Meanwhile, Quidnunc interjected ironic remarks, poking fun at the pretensions of news writers, politicians, and others. Anchored in the literary culture of its time, and drawing on learned traditions of textual editing, the GSJ offered readers an eighteenth-century version of media criticism through satire

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Write Up Your Dead: The Bills of Mortality and the London Plague of 1665

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Upright Piracy: Understanding the Lack of Copyright for Journalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

International audienceThe growth of newspapers and other periodicals in England after 1695 raised a new question: in the absence of licensing, could these writings be protected against unauthorized reprinting? The Act of Anne (1710), which provided authors and proprietors with a limited copyright for their books, did not mention periodicals, but competition among essay sheets in the 1710s did lead some proprietors to register their periodicals under the Act. In the 1730s, the appearance of monthly magazines led to an important debate about the legitimacy of reprinting articles from periodicals. In subsequent decades changes in the business of news and the journalistic culture of London made it increasingly difficult to imagine that accounts of current events could be owned