Raju, Hindu male aged 70, was admitted to hospital on the afternoon of the 19th April, 1922, suffering from extreme emaciation, inability to take food, and an offensive and purulent discharge from the mouth. The patient had suffered from this trouble for 12 years and had been in the habit of having the swelling punctured by a barber when it increased in size. Twelve days prior to his admission ...

PICA is an act or habit of eating non-food items such as stone, bricks, chalk, soap, paper, soil etc., It occurs in children who actually start seeing the world through the oral cavity. There are many theories behind it such as iron and zinc deficiency etc., We as dentists should be able to diagnose and treat such conditions, as they may cause ill-effects to the developing dentition. This case ...

Of the many causes of indigestion and pain after food, ulceration of the stomach and duodenum ranks first. Whereas errors of diet and habit, anxiety and worry, dental sepsis, etc. may be numerically much commoner causes, the proof or definite exclusion of ulceration is important because on this will depend the type of treatment which should be adopted. If an ulcer is found, there is an absolute...

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a major public health problem in the northeastern part of Thailand where the prevalence of this cancer is highest in the world. It is a slow growing tumor but highly metastatic with a poor prognosis. The traditional habit of eating raw fish, repeated exposure to liver fluke and consumption of nitrosamine-contaminated food are major risk factors. Understanding of carc...

I have heard that the main reason why diet drinks, like a diet soda, can be bad on a diet, is that it can spike insulin levels and then your body expects sugar that it does not get. I have taken to the habit of only occasionally having diet drinks with meals, so that any increase in insulin is actually met with food in my system. My question is whether or not this is a good/workable strategy, o...