Magic bullet: the history of oral rehydration therapy
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Magic bullet: the history of oral rehydration therapy.
In February 1994, the directors of major United Nations agencies, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, medical researchers, international health advocates and politicians gathered in Dacca, Bangladesh, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of a life-saving technique known as oral rehydration therapy (ORT). UNICEF and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research organized the meetin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300036905