Large numbers of organisms in food may cause bacterial infection. The bacteria grow rapidly in the moist warm intestinal environment and in 12 to 36 hours produce symptoms such as fever, vomiting, distention, cramping, and diarrhea. The illness is usually mild, lasts for two or three days, and is not usually reported to public health [...]

The following is the list of do nots, the health destroyers that you must avoid if you wish to achieve optimum health. All these factors are scientifically well-proven as potent health-destroyers. My files are bulging with overwhelming research and incriminating evidence on each item. • Tobacco, including cigars. •   Coffee, tea, chocolate, cola drinks [...]

Cause Hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by a virus called Coxsackie A. It is not acquired from animals and has nothing to do with hoof and mouth disease. It is very contagious amongst groups of children, but it is a relatively mild and harmless infection. Clinical features Outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth [...]

General practice This is the mainstay of good medical care for your child and family. There may be one doctor working alone (solo practitioner) or several doctors may have combined to form a group practice. The general practice will have complete medical records for your child (as well as yourself), and the practitioner will be [...]

ABBREVIATED ORGASMIC CONTRACTIONS: It’s like it doesn’t really completely fire; you know what I mean. It doesn’t throb like it used to. They’re there, but not the same. I can’t get that feeling. I just don’t feel it thump or pulse like it did. I mean, it does throb, but not fully. Can you guess [...]

It’s really embarrassing. My stomach seems to gurgle every time we try to make love. I mean, it’s loud. He never says anything about it, but you never hear that in the movies. WIFE At first I thought it was coming from her vagina, this strange rumbling sound. I think it’s her stomach, though. She [...]

Most of these reactions are due to sympathetic stimulation. Some, such as the desire to use the bladder or bowels and the sweating are due to parasympathetic overstimulation. All are normal reactions to real or implied danger. If we could not respond quickly, almost without thinking, we would not survive. But this normal response to [...]

Depression is one of the most common disorders of modern life and is believed to be increasing. In the past, depression was classified into two groups: endogenous, or coming from within, and exogenous, or coming from without. This latter form was also called reactive depression and was usually associated with loss. Most doctors now think [...]

The cause of the sudden infant death syndrome is not known. Well over 100 theories have been suggested and despite considerable research there is no proven one cause. It may well be that there are several factors which can lead to cot death. It is common in all races and cultures and in all socio-economic [...]

Aloe vera, the Mexican healing plant, is the time-honored home remedy for a variety of human ills, but very few doctors know anything about it. For this reason, the journal Cutis (37:106) recently reviewed the plant’s chemical ingredients and pointed out that many of them are medicinally active. For instance, aloe contains an enzyme which [...]