Appendicitis The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment

Clinical Guidelines for Management and Referral of Common Conditions

This guide provides a firm base for the attainment of equity and high standards in health care and the development of rational procurement and use of drugs by all prescribers, dispensers, hospital managers, and patients. The Guidelines are for the use of all clinicians who have the primary responsibility for diagnosis, management, and referral of outpatients and inpatients. They are also very useful to interns, medical students, clinical officers, pharmacists, and nurses in training.

Author(s): World Health Organization

574 Pages

Internal Medicine Lecture Notes

This lecture note has been written primarily for Health officer students; however it can also be used by medical students and all other health science students who deal with patients, who have medical illnesses. Topics covered includes: Infectious diseases, Disease of the respiratory System, Diseases of the Cardiovascular System, Diaseses of the Kidney, Disease of the Gastrointestinal system, Hematologic Diseases, Disease of Metabolism and Endocrine System, Diseases of the Nervous System.

Author(s): Getachew Tizazu and Tadesse Anteneh

596 Pages

Preventable Diseases

The Body-Republic and its Defense, Our Legacy of Health: the Power of Heredity in the Prevention of Disease, The Physiognomy of Disease: what a Doctor can tell from Appearances, Colds and how to catch Them, Adenoids, or Mouth-Breathing: their Cause and their Consequences, Tuberculosis, Scotched Snake, Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake, The Unchecked Great Scourge: Pneumonia, The Natural History of Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria: the Modern Moloch, The Herods of Our Day: Scarlet Fever, Measles, and Whooping-Cough, Appendicitis, or Nature's Remnant Sale, Malaria: the Pestilence that walketh in Darkness; the greatest Foe of the Pioneer,  Rheumatism, Germ-Foes that follow the Knife, or Death under the Finger-Nail, Cancer, or Treason in the Body-State, Headache, Nerves and Nervousness, Mental Influence in Disease, or how the Mind affects the Body.

Author(s): Woods Hutchinson

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Chronic Kidney Disease

This book emphasis the change in focus in renal medicine from treatment of established kidney disease to earlier identification and prevention of kidney disease. It is focussing on prevention and on the early detection and treatment of potentially progressive disease, whilst the prevalence of risk factors for CKD, such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension is rising.

Author(s): Royal College of Physicians, UK

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