patients and methods the study adopts a quasi-experimental research design. a total of 102 mothers of children presenting with febrile seizure and admitted to a teaching hospital in iran were equally assigned to three groups: group i received no intervention (control group), group ii received a febrile seizure information pamphlet, and group iii received the febrile seizure information pamphlet...

Undeu the above comprehensive and indeed misleading title a very useful little pamphlet is published by Mr. R. Weiss, a consulting chemist, assisted by Dr. G. Herschell and Mr. A. Charles, F.R.C.S.i. It deals with the use of laboratory methods in daily practice. For example, 27 pages are given to urine analysis, another section to analysis of stomach contents, ten pages to analyses of faeces, a...

We are glad to see that Lieutenant-Colonel Joshua Duke, I.M.S., (retd.), has republished his useful little pamphlet entitled " Precautions and Suggestions for the prevention and check of Cholera." This code of rules was originally drawn up by Lieutenant-Colonel Duke, when he was P. M. 0. of the Punjab Frontier Force, and is based chiefly upon Mr. Hankin's valuable brochure called, " Cholera in ...

\S The following account of the way in which the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute in Geneva is dealing with the problem of the training of teachers of defective children , is a translation of an article written by M. Pierre Bovet, and. published in pamphlet form. He expressly states that his object in drawing attention to the subject is that it may induce others to make still further efforts, so...

BACKGROUND There are a number of evidence-based, in-person clinical inteventions for problem drinkers, but most problem drinkers will never seek such treatments. Reaching the population of non-treatment seeking problem drinkers will require a different approach. Accordingly, this randomized clinical trial evaluated an intervention that has been validated in clinical settings and then modified i...

In this little pamphlet the author has aimed at giving the barest skeleton of the Rhesus Factor. He has succeeded. Even case reports and treatment have been included and so has been an unorthodoxy in immunology that ' the first few drops of a transfusion could so sensitize the patient that the next few drops could produce a reactionThis of course is not only ' exceptionally rare' but simply doe...