Keep Candy in the House

The candy prophylactic: danger, disease, and children's candy around 1916.

By 1916, America had firmly established its international reputation as ‘‘a great candy eating nation’’ (‘‘Brooklyn Leads’’ 1). American candy consumption was by some estimates approaching half a pound per week per person; if that was an average, there were many eating significantly more (‘‘Pure Candy’’). Children, too, in the early decades of the twentieth century were buying and eating candy ...

Candy Medication

Candy flavorings in tobacco.

Taking candy from the baby.

A 7-month-old girl of average weight and unremarkable medical and family history presented with chronic osmotic diarrhea and failure to thrive. The onset of symptoms appeared shortly after cereals and fruits were introduced into her diet. As part of the investigation of the gastrointestinal symptoms, a biopsy of the small intestine mucosa was sent to the laboratory for biochemical analysis. Upo...

Reading The Role of Yard in House

In today lives, daily trips of house inhabitants to out is made using closed staircase spaces or lobbies. Lack of a place for neighbourly relation results in less recognition and in some cases there is no neighbourly and friendly relationship. Families and especially kids surrounded in-house space so, today kids have less mobility and cause to depression of inhabitants of apartment houses. In a...