BACKGROUND Providing drinking water to U.S. children during school meals is a recommended health promotion strategy and part of national nutrition policy. Urban school systems have struggled with providing drinking water to children, and little is known about how to ensure that water is served, particularly in afterschool settings. PURPOSE To assess the effectiveness of an intervention design...

the plant Vitex pedxincularis was useful in the treatment of blackwater fever and of malarial fevers. This plant grows in Bihar, Eastern Bengal and the Central Provinces, though it is not very well known. In Hindi it is known by various names,?Nagbail, Nagpheni, Charaigorwa, Chhacjriaruba, Minjur-gorwa, in Bengali it is called Bpruna and Goda. The only reference regarding its medicinal properti...

Kumbakonam Hospital with the characteristic disease. Duration?six months. 23rd October, 1916, 2 ounces of a solution of antimony tartarate (1 erain in 2 oz. of distilled water) was given intravenously. Two days afterwards the surface showed signs of healing. On 30th October, 1916, my house surgeon gave another injection of the same strength. The patient is said to have left the hospital on 25tl...

In an attempt to fight the obesity epidemic, an unprecedented policy banning the sale of sugary beverages in containers over 16 ounces in selected public venues was proposed the city of New York. This policy is not without opposition from different sectors including the sugary beverage industry and civil organizations that portray it as a violation of consumers’ rights to choose. We explore the...

She remained without any medical affiftance until the third day after the accident, when I was defired to fee her. The byftanders informed me that (he had become fick and fpeecnlefs immediately after the fall, and, after a fhort interval, comatofe. She now difcharged her urine involuntarily, and had had a fhivering fit a few hours before I faw her : twelve ounces of blood were, therefore, taken...

A simple and inexpensive flight payload system for experimental high altitude balloon flights is described. The payload includes a simple 2m FM/CW telemetry beacon transmitter, an automated ID'er/controller which can provide up to 16 different CW telemetry status messages and also control an inexpensive digital camera for collecting still images at predetermined intervals during the balloon fli...

Case I . Baby D. was born on 8th July, 1954. Abnormalities noted during this, the mother’s first pregnancy, were: excessive gain in weight, hydramnios, frequency of micturition and profuse vaginal discharge. Labour lasted 16 hours. Foetal heart sounds ceased 10 minutes before delivery. The baby was stillborn, severely hydropic and weighed 4 pounds 132 ounces. The placenta was unduly large, fles...