This pamphlet is a reprint from the Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London, and deals with the prevalence of typhoid fever in the Indian army. The author was for some 20 years in the Sanitary Department of the North-Western Provinces, and his account of the inertia displayed in sanitary matters is pitiable. lie attributes much of the enteric lever in the army to the use of pollut...

BACKGROUND The implementation of evidence based clinical practice guidelines on self-management interventions to patients with chronic diseases is a complex process. A multifaceted strategy may offer an effective knowledge translation (KT) intervention to promote knowledge uptake and improve adherence in an effective walking program based on the Ottawa Panel Evidence Based Clinical Practice Gui...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a school-based smoking cessation program targeting adolescents interested in quitting. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial over one school year. SETTING Large public high school. PARTICIPANTS Students interested in quitting smoking. INTERVENTION Seventy-four students were randomized to receive either: 1) a 6-week, 8-session, classroom-based, smoking cess...

The nature of this pamphlet is abundantly evident from its title. The information necessary for its compilation has been drawn chiefly from the Medical Register, Churchill's Directory, and the Bengal Quarterly Army List. As it contains, in a compact form, a considerable amount of personal information regarding the Officers of the Bengal Medical Service, it ought to commend itself to the individ...

1 The lactation consultant says, "You have the chance to provide your baby with the best possible start in life, through the special bond of breastfeeding. The wonderful advantages to you and your baby will last a lifetime." And then the mother bottle-feeds. Why? In part because that sales pitch could just as easily have come from a commercial baby milk pamphlet. When our phrasing and that of t...

Indian J Med Sci, Vol. 62, No. 9, September 2008 is an urgent need for fi rst-aid measures and to impart relevant skills to the parents but the pathways to these are not described clearly. Could we have role-play models, documentaries, pamphlet distribution, and healthcare information in the media to highlight the issue? There is also an urgent need to discard the old traditional, social and re...

The attention of the profession in this country, was not, I believe, particularly called to the medicinal properties of the Stramonium till Dr Marcet, in an interesting paper, read before the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, in June 1816, and published in their Transactions *, detailed the ^results of his experience of its use. Storck, it is true, so early as 1762, in a pamphlet publi...