The tissue distribution and excretion of radioactive digitoxin and its metabolites were studied in normal rats and cats and in rats with dietary induced myocardial lesions. The prolonged cardiac and renal retention of digitoxin and its derivatives, associated with the persistence of these substances in the excreta of sensitive animals, supports the concept of storage as an explanation for the c...

An Anglo-Indian, asked to mention the principal annoyances attending every-day life in this country, would probably catalogue heat, musquitoes, sparrows, and various kinds of winged insects, not forgetting the irrepressible house fly?a dipteron which, whether acting under dense ignorance of danger, or whether influenced by pure impudence, does not hesitate to explore, even at the risk of destru...

have been met. He admires the hospitals, both plague and general, which he saw ; but is surprised that these have not all got water laid on, and that the water-carriage system of removal of excreta is not adopted. For the management of and teaching in the medical schools, he has a high admiration ; but remarks that " Bacteriology is treated in a markedly step-motherly way.'-5 Of the training of...

An adequate method for the safe disposal oi human excreta is perhaps the most important problem which confronts rural sanitarians and public health workers. With the recognition of water as the carrier of many of the filth-borne diseases, more emphasis has been laid in recent years on the extent of soil and ground water pollution in deciding the sanitary and health protective values of these me...

During a series of experiments designed to study mineral metabolism on rice diets (Cullumbine, Basnayake, LeMottee & Wickramanayake, 1950), it was also found possible to estimate the nitrogen content of the food and excreta for the group of twelve subjects and so to determine whether there were any differences in the nitrogen metabolism of subjects when eating diets first high in unpolished ric...

Introduction Inhalation of hantavirus-contaminated aerosol of rodents’ excreta can cause in humans hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the Americas. In Greece, 1-5 cases are being diagnosed annually, mainly in the northern and western part. After the recent diagnosis of a hantavirus infection in Achaia prefecture (Peloponesse), a seroepid...

Access to sanitation – the hygienic disposal of human excreta – has been largely achieved through the private sector supplying individual households. Evidence from what works indicates that development of the market is the only sustainable approach to meeting the need for sanitation in the developing world. This field note explains the marketing approach and suggests that it should be promoted ...

Reducing N excretion from individual cows is one way among others to better cope with the problem of the negative contribution of the dairy herd to the “Nitrogen cycle” on the farm. The objectives of this paper are first to quantify the effects of the main forage systems and protein feeding level on the amount of N excreted in relationship to their simultaneous effects on animal performances an...