3) Kitchen, store room and food samples should be examined. 2) Water sample should be tested. 1) Examine each and every person affected. How to investigate food poisoning? Diarrhoea and vomiting is common in this infection. 5) Bacillus cereus: The spores of these organisms can survive cooking and causes enteritis. They enter the body through,meat,meat dishes and egg ect.If food articles are cooked and kept in room temperature for a long time and heated again before eating can result this food poisoning.Symptoms include vomiting ,diarrhoea and abdominal cramps. 4) Closteridium food poisoning: This is caused by closteridium perfringens.They are present in stool,soil and water. These organisms usually cause skin troubles like boils and eruptions.It causes mastitis in cow.Through the milk and milk products it enders and causes gastroenteritis.There will be vomiting,abdominal cramps with diarrhoea. 3) Staphylococcal food poisoning: It is caused by staphylo coccus aureus. The spores of the...

Shall we exceed the truth if we say that the man in What, if from any cause this beautiful equipoise should be disturbed and the mind lose its power to think clearly, or to hold the lower passions in due control? The word is one that gives us a shock; and, as we hear it, we almost involuntarily thank God for the good gift of a well-balanced mind. Now, as to this matter of insanity, let him think calmly. You must not accept anything simply because we say it, but because he sees it to be true. We are not writing in the interest of any special theory, nor in the spirit of partisanship; but with an earnest desire to make the truth appear. A fever is a fever, whether it be light or intensely burning; and so any disturbance of the mind's rational equipoise is insanity, whether it be in the simplest form of temporary obscurity, or in the midnight of a totally darkened intellect. -------- It is, therefore, a very serious thing for a man to take into his body any substance which, on reachi...

This coating is thick on the posterior aspect of the tongue where millions of gram negative bacteriae are seen 3) Biofilm: There is formation of a thin sticky coating called biofilm on the tongue and oral mucosa. Small food articles taken in between the meals can also produce bad smell. Irregularity in timing of food can also produce bad breath. However if proper cleaning is done smell can be reduced irrespective of the nature of food. Eating groundnuts can also produce bad smell. It is said that an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a raw onion a day keeps everybody away. Raw onion can produce typical bad smell. Some food articles can produce particular type of smell which may be unpleasent. Meat,fish,milk products, eggs,cakes,nuts,pear and ect can cause bad breath. 2) Food habits: The main cause of bad smell is due to degradation of protein by the bacteria and hence all food products rich in protein favours bad breath. So the reduction in it's quantity during sleep makes a favou...

7) Homoeopathy. 5) Surgery. 3) Yoga. 3) Traction. 2) Back exercises. 2) Symptomatic treatement. Treatment of back ache:- 1) Removing the cause for backache. 6) Examination of rectum,prostate,genito urinary organs. 5) CT scan of abdomen and pelvic region. 5) MRI of the spine. 4) X-ray of the lumbar and sacral region. 3) Ultrasonography of the abdomen and pelvis. 2) Routine urine examination. Investigation of a case of backache:- 1) Complete blood count. h) Occlusion of aorta and illiac arteries. g) Inflammations of pelvic organs. f) Peptic ulcer. e) Biliary stones. d) Pancreatitis. c) Cancer of prostate. b) Ureteric stone. a) Renal stones. 3) Backache due to problems in other parts of the body. f) Endometriosis. e) Cancerous lesions of the pelvic organs. d) Pelvic inflammatory diseases. c) Prolapse of the uterus. b) After gynaecological operations. 2) Backache due to gynaecological problems:- a) After childbirth. 2) Metastatic tumours from other sites like prostate,lungs,kidneys,i...

Richardson says: "Alcohol contains no nitrogen; it has Dr. One writer (Hammond) thinks it possible that it may 'somehow' enter into combination with the products of decay in tissues, and 'under certain circumstances might yield their nitrogen to the construction of new tissues.' No parallel in organic chemistry, nor any evidence in animal chemistry, can be found to surround this guess with the areola of a possible hypothesis". Hunt, "seen but a single suggestion that it could so act, and this a promiscuous guess. "We have never," says Dr. For years, the ablest men in the medical profession have given this subject the most careful study, and have subjected alcohol to every known test and experiment, and the result is that it has been, by common consent, excluded from the class of tissue-building foods. How these substances when taken into the body, are assimilated and how they generate force, are well known to the chemist and physiologist, who i...

Then the valves lose their suppleness and what is termed valvular The quality of the membraneous structures which cover and line the heart changes and are thickened, become cartilaginous or calcareous. -------------------------- Consumption of alcohol greatly affects the heart. Alcohol weakens the heart. During severe winter seasons, the suddenly fatal congestions of lungs easily affects an alcoholic. When subjected to the effects of a rapid variation in atmospheric temperature, they get readily congested. ------------------------ Alcohol relaxes the vessels of the lungs easily as they are most exposed to the fluctuations of heat and cold. Congestion of the lungs. This results in the body losing its power as if it were being run out of blood gradually. Albumin from the blood easily passes through their membranes. The minute structures in them go through fatty modification. The vessels of Kidneys lose elasticity and power of contraction. ---------------------------- The Kidneys also s...