The need for supplying these deficiencies is at present the most urgent one in medical education and in public health work, and is recognized on all sides. The cry comes loudest from public health officials, social workers and others interested in public health administration, national, state, municipal and rural, who realize the lack of trained leaders and trained workers in all grades of the ...

PETTENKOFERFATHER OF EXPERIMENTAL HYGIENE Max Von Pettenkoffer (1818-1901) studied at the University of Munich and obtained his M.D. He undertook postgraduate studies in chemistry at Wurzberg, where he identified hippuric acid in the urine and described a qualitative test for bile saltsthe Pettenkoffer’s test. In 1847, he was called to Munich, as Professor of medical chemistry, a newly created ...

Clean food 159 partly possible to legislate about the latter. It would be interesting to know whether more outbreaks of food poisoning begin in homes than in public eating-places. Where home hygiene is poor, the family has often a high resistance, but where homes are clean, immunity is probably acquired late, or not at all. This means, in effect, that a rising standard of hygiene in homes makes...

a very complete index conclude a well-written, well-printed, and well-illustrated volume, which cannot fail to be of much utility for consultation on the many questions of Sanitation which are commonly cropping up from day to day, and on which an authoritative statement is required. We notice a remark appropriate to the present time outcry for eggs, " Though nutritious and digestible, they cann...

on hygiene. The author must necessarily follow the stereotyped lines of water, air, soil, food, disposal of refuse, personal hygiene, infective diseases, and statistics. In the little work before us, written by Dr. J. P. Modi, of the Agra Medical School, the author follows the usual lines and gives admirable short and accurate accounts of the various subjects. As Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. O'Mear...

are of little use to the Indian student. A new chapter has been added on animal parasites, one on school hygiene and two on maternity and child welfare. A most important advantage of the book is that it does not attempt to teach too much. The Indian student usually suffers from the well meant efforts of his teachers to give him a complete course of instruction in each subject of the curriculum,...

The American Dental Education Association (ADEA), Section on Dental Hygiene Education, Competency Development Committee drafted the competency statements presented in this document. This committee had representation from both baccalaureate and associate degree dental hygiene programs. It also included representation from dental hygiene, clinical, social and basic sciences, and the American Dent...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to understand dental utilization of 1) individuals serving/having served in active duty in the U.S. military as compared with the general public and 2) individuals who are currently serving as compared with individuals who are no longer active duty, but have been in active duty within the previous year. METHODS The Behavior and Risk Surveillance Surve...