essential is to have the patient under observation for two or three days, during which he lives his ordinary life, and partakes of his ordinary food. In this period the twenty-four hours urine is measured, the total sugar estimated, and, if possible, the blood sugar calculated. Should the case be a severe one, the patient elderly or debilitated, and any considerable quantity of diacetic acid pr...

in this paper, by using the survival models, survival functions for the time from birth to the event of using formula (i.e. the time that baby in fed by breast milk) in urban and rural areas of takestan (iran, winter 1998) are reported. later the relation between the mentioned time and some factors are also discussed. the kaplan-meire method and cox regression are used in this paper as well. 48...

mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of molds and have adverse effects on humans, animals, and crops. those can cause illnesses and economic losses. aflatoxin m1 (afm1) is one of the mycotoxins produced from the hydroxylated metabolite of aflatoxin b1 (afb1). it can be found in milk or milk products obtained from livestock that have ingested contaminated feed. in this paper, recent studies were...

^ An elastic band having been applied to the root of the penis ; there was but little hajmorrhage. The tumour weighed 8J ounces. For the first day water dressing was applied, which was subsequently changed to carbolic oil. Granulation went on steadily, and the wound had all but healed when the patient absconded on the 19th September Case II.?Darick Napit, Hindu male,' aged 30, was ad, mitted in...

"If all the country's electricity were generated by nuclear power plants, the health risk would be equivalent to the risk faced by a regular smoker who smokes one extra cigarette every 10 years; or by an overweight person who increases his weight by 0.03 ounces; by crossing a street one extra time every 20 weeks; by increasing the national speed limit from 55 mph to 55.02; or by using a sub-com...

Approximately 6,000 tons of technical DDT were sprayed over i0 million acres of forest land around New Brunswick (N.B.), Canada, between 1952 and 1968, as part of the regional spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clemens) control program (MACDONALD, 1966). Intensive ecological research on DDT in the forest environment has been concentrated around the Priceville area of Central N.B. since 19...

while digging a drain in some sugar-cane field, and while in a state of profuse perspiration, he became thirsty and drank about 10 ounces of cold water. Immediately after drinking he felt a sensation of dryness and pricking in the throat, after which the symptoms increased gradually during the day, and prevented him working, eating, and drinking; he felt besides a difficulty in breathing and sp...

ed signs of suppuration on April 28th and four ounces of pus were let out by incision. "On May 2nd,symptoms of pneumonia appeared and he coughed up frothy blood. He died on May 3rd, fourteenth day from the commencement of the attack. Medical opinion was divided over this case, some holding that it was a case of ordinary septicaemia,and others that it was plague septicaemia. Taking into consider...

A digital recorder weighing ounces and able to record for more than ten hours can be bought for a few hundred dollars. Such devices make possible continuous recordings of “personal audio” – storing essentially everything heard by the owner. Without automatic indexing, however, such recordings are almost useless. In this paper, we describe some experiments with recordings of this kind, focusing ...

Iodized salt has been an important source of dietary iodine, a trace element important for regulating human growth, development, and metabolic functions. This analysis identified iodized table salt sales as a percentage of retail salt sales using Nielsen ScanTrack. We identified 1117 salt products, including 701 salt blends and 416 other salt products, 57 of which were iodized. When weighted by...