A study was carried out of 274 children in Scotland aged 0 to 13 years recorded as having had acute nephritis over a four-year period (1976-79). The medical records for 223 of the patients were examined and 79 cases of poststreptococcal nephritis were identified, giving an estimated incidence of 2.1 episodes per 100,000 children per year. Using a number of assumptions, the authors sought the an...

Service-oriented systems engineering (SoSE) counts its two-decade history. Nowadays it is a way of developing and deploying applications as well as the whole enterprise systems. Service-oriented requirements engineering (SoRE) as an integral part of SoSE and as a new requirements engineering subdiscipline faces a number of different kinds of challenges. The early SoRE approaches were derived fr...

There is a new world health crisis threatening the public with spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019). Since 2019 when Covid-19 emerged in Hunan seafood market at Wuhan, South China and rapidly throughout world, virus outbreak has been declared emergency by WHO. Corona causes respiratory infection including pneumonia, cold, sneezing coughing while animal it diarrhea upper diseases. trans...

Sir,?In their excellent paper on Naga Sore, in the January number of the Indian Medical Gazette, Drs. Panja and Ghosh have mentioned my copped sulphate-phenol solution under the heading ?* treatment. May I draw attention to a modification of my original solution, recommended by James (1938), which I have found superior. It consists in the substitution glycerine for water and the formula is as f...

The condition commonly known as septic throat or epidemic sore throat deserves special importance from the general practitioner as like no other common condition it is so frequentlymissed and even mis-diagnosed. This is particularly unfortunate because it is amenable to a simple and reliable form of therapy. Septic sore throat is an acute streptococcal infection with a fairly clear-cut clinical...

(i) In the majority of cases the first lesions were a slight itching or scratch or somle trauma. In some instances the ulcers were due to guinea-worm infection. (ii) The ulcers were always on the leg, ankle, or foot only. (tit) The ulcer was generally circular, its edges undermined, and its margins raised. There was a foul, purulent, tenacious slough. Lymphangitis was noticed only around the ul...

By A. GREVILLE YOUNG, f.r.c.s. (Ed.), d.t.m. Church of Scotland Mission Hospital, Jalna, Deccan On 18th August, 1936, I first saw a Brahmin woman with five nodules on the left arm and three on her right. The nodules were of a purple colour, smooth and about the size of a large pea; and on the left arm the area between the nodules was completely anaesthetic. The dots in the diagram represent the...

Sir, ?For the last fifteen years Lieutenant Colonel T. B. ?Kelly, i.m.S., had very encouraging results in the treatment of oriental sores with a broken surface by the local application of mercury in the form of blackwash or blue ointment. He could discharge such cases to duty within three weeks, but a much longer period was required when the case was seen in an early stage with an unbroken skin.

BACKGROUND Sore throat is a very common reason for people to attend for medical care. It is a disease that remits spontaneously, that is, 'cure' is not dependent on treatment. Nonetheless primary care doctors commonly prescribe antibiotics for sore throat and other upper respiratory tract infections. OBJECTIVES To assess the benefits of antibiotics in the management of sore throat. SEARCH S...