a baby's own mother." She confesses that to begin with, in spite of her college training, she was "a novice at baby culture," but adds in extenuation of her shortcomings, that if she were "going in for chickens, or pigs, there would be schools, universities, and government pamphlets galore at her service, but when she would raise only a human baby, universities and government bureaus are silent...

In a talk in which I described an extended case study of the young child's acquisition of biological knowledge (Carey 1985), 1 claimed that the preschool child's concepts animal and baby differ from our adult concepts.' One source of evidence for this claim is that 4and 5-year-olds typically do not realize that all animals have babies, indicating a concept linirnal without reproduction as a cor...

background and objectives: furfural (f) and hydroxymethyl furfural (hmf) are cyclic aldehydes, which are formed during the heat processing of foods. these chemical contaminants have received much attention due to their suspected health hazards and heat damage indicators. the aim of the present study was extraction and determination of f and hmf in baby-foods using dispersive liquid-liquid micro...

conclusions every clinician must be alert to the possibility of battered baby in a child with multiple injuries. case presentation a three-year-old female child was brought with multiple bruises, fracture of left femur and features of raised intracranial tension. the etiology was unclear at presentation. inconsistencies in history given by the mother, a background of poverty and single parentho...

BACKGROUND The use of incentives to promote smoking cessation is a promising technique for increasing the effectiveness of interventions. This study evaluated the smoking cessation outcomes and factors associated with success for pregnant smokers who registered with a pilot incentivised smoking cessation scheme in a Scottish health board area (NHS Tayside). METHODS All pregnant smokers who en...

Using fillers for aesthetic corrections purposes are becoming more and more popular amongst patients due to its less invasive nature compared to surgery. A 46-year old female patient said after her first baby born, she lost the perkiness and fullness of the breasts. Then she injected her breasts with baby oil found at home with a syringe with about 200 cc for each breast and she was quite conte...

A 5-day-old male neonate was referred for removal of foreign body. Baby had accidentally ingested a gold finger ring presented to her by grandmother. Baby was brought to outside hospital in stable clinical condition. Initial Xray neck and chest showed radio-opaque foreign body at level of cricopharynx. Baby was posted for rigid esophagoscopy under anesthesia. But foreign body was not found in t...