" THE TEA-KETTLE POLICY IN CHOLERA." To The Editor, " Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?Anent Dr. A. Mitra's assertion in the March number of The Indian Medical Gazette page 119, col. 2, para. 3, I have to say, that the use of boiling water and the theory thereto is not the learned doctor's innovation but was known to the Hindus and Hindu physicians long before the Christian era. Hindu Medical auth...

The study was conducted with the aim of studying the wives of patients with psychosexual dysfunction with regard to the level of distress experienced and its relationship with their psychosocial dysfunction and marital adjustment. The sample comprised wives of 30 male patients with psychosexual dysfunction. Majority of the subjects was under matriculate, housewives, Hindus, and of urban backgro...

It is an old philosophical idea that if the future self is literally different from the current self, one should be less concerned with the death of the future self (Parfit, ). This paper examines the relation between attitudes about death and the self among Hindus, Westerners, and three Buddhist populations (Lay Tibetan, Lay Bhutanese, and monastic Tibetans). Compared with other groups, monast...

The acceptance and inclusion of persons with intellectual disability can vary across cultures, and understanding attitudes can provide insight into such variation. To our knowledge, no previous study has explored attitudes toward people with intellectual disability among Pakistani community members and disability service providers. We administered the Community Living Attitudes Scale (Henry et ...

Moral consciousness is an undeniable fact of human experience. The moral sensibility is something essential for the peaceful society and the work. Even gods are believed to incarnate to restore righteousness and peace in the society. Down through the centuries, many religious teachers, and philosophers were interested in the rational ground of morality. The caste duties of the Hindus prescribed...

UNLABELLED Religion and spiritual practices are among the resources used by patients to cope with chronic pain. The major concepts of Hinduism that are related to pain and suffering are presented. Ways that Hindu traditions deal with pain and suffering are reviewed, including the concept of acceptance, which has been studied in the pain medicine literature. By becoming more familiar with Hindu ...

gnii ln the Bombay Presidency in general, and in the Kolaba district (where I am working) in particular, I have observed that the incidence of leprosy amongst Mohammedans is very low as compared with Hindus (of the same social status), although the habits and the conditions under which both these communities live are more or less identical. I believe this fact might have been noticed by other o...

Health status of neonates in urban slums has not been studied in smaller towns. A questionnaire was administered to 154 families of 10 urban slums of Anand (population - 197351) and 160 families from 6 villages of Anand district. The socioeconomic and education status of the slum dwellers versus rural participants were significantly lower (P<0.001). Antenatal care (79.9 vs 94.4%, P<0.001), hosp...

The problem of long life has intrigued the imagination of man at all times and the tradition of a much longer span of life in the spacious days of the distant past than what the modern man enjoys survives among all nations. Among the Hindus the 1 Puranas' set forth that it was a slur on the administration of a ruler if his subjects failed to attain the age of a hundred and twenty. Isaiah states...