The problème des ménages (married couples problem) introduced by E.Lucas in 1891 is a classical problem that asks the number of ways to arrange n married couples around a circular table, so that husbands and wives are in alternate places but no couple is seated together. In this paper we present a new version of Menage Problem that carries the constraints consistent with the Muslim culture. The...

any practical way of treating the following condition? I have a patient who is a young Bengali girl of 20 quite healthy and robust. She was in love with a healthy young man, whom she married some two years back. Both the husband and the wife deny a history of even a single act of successful coitus, since their marriage. This being a very obstinate case of vaginismus, I have carefully gone into ...

A woman, aged 27, presented herself at the Maternity Hospital, Bangalore, with the following history:? When she was a child of five years two swellings, each of the size of a small cherry, were noticed in the groin" by her parents. The swellings increased in size very gradually. She was married when about fifteen years of age. There is no history of menstruation. She lived with her husband for ...

of the abdomen about an inch below the umbilicus. Each loop was one inch long. On being questioned, the woman gave the following history:? That the husband had great suspicions against her chastity, and, whenever he left home, he used to put her in chains in the room, which was also locked. On the slightest pretext he used to beat her; that the loops were inserted by her husband, who had meant ...

To my children, my husband, and my parents.

Case 1.?A Hindu female from district Warangal, Hyderabad (July 1940), killed her husband by giving him a drink containing ground Bhilawan (marking nut) and snake poison. No snake poison was detected but Bhilawan was detected on a stone on which it was ground and in the remnant of the prepared poison which she said she gave to her husband. It could not be detected in earth soiled with vomited ma...

became calm but harbored the delusions. Supportive counseling sessions involving the patient and her husband addressed the underlying conflicts resulting in significant reduction of anxiety. The Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale[6] was used to calibrate the rate of resolution of delusions (D1 and D2) [Figure 2]. Even as the psychotropics were stopped within a week, fortnightly follow‐up session...