From the Editor’s Desk                                           225

EDITORIAL

Non-nutritive sucking in preterms                                   229
S. Ramji

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Promotion of safe motherhood in India                                        232
Umesh Kapil

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The first attack of acute rheumatic fever in childhood: Clinical and laboratory profile                         241
P. Nair, E. Philip, C.G. Bahuleyan, M. Thomas, J. Shanmugham and N.S. Suguna Bai

Agreement between arm circumference, weight for age, and weight for height measures of malnutrition in children                                247
Mary Ann Anderson, Tara Gopaldas, Rita Abbi and Sunder Gujral

Incidence of malnutrition jin children aged -6 years in Sivas, an eastern province of Turkey    257
A.    Oguz, A.S. Gokalp and A. Gultekin

Evaluation of beneficial effects of non nutritive sucking in preterm infants               263
S.K. Sehgal, Om Prakash, A. Gupta, Man Mohan and N.K. Anand

Diagnostic and prognostic value of CT brain scan in term neonates with moderate and severe birth asphyxia                              267
M.D. Khare and R.H. Merchant

Determination of gestational age of newborns – a comparative study                                   272
V.A. Bhagwat, H.B. Dahat and N.G. Bapat

A study of twin births in rural communities of Gujarat                                                          276
N.J. Talasania and C.K. Purohit

Disseminated intraveascular coagulation: diagnosis and current therapy                  280
V.P. Choudhry, V. Thavaraj and A.K. Saraya

BRIEF REPORTS

Development of BCG scar in relation to the age and nutritional status                                   291
R.K. Agarwal, D. Kapur and S. Kumari

Prevalence of Salmonella Typhi O and H antibodies in the serum of infants and preschool children      293
T. Cherian, G. Sridharan, V. Mohandas and T. Jacob John

Application of modified widal test in specific diagnosis of enteric fever                                295
A Rattan, V. Maheshwari, N.K. Maheshwari, A. Malik and M.A. Malik

Congenital muscular dystrophy with arachnodactyly                                                  298
S.K. Kabra, A.K. Deorari, V.K. Paul, Chitra Sarkar and Meharban Singh

Foreign body larynx – an unusual mode of entry and presentation                            300
S.P.S. Yadav, H.C. Goel and S.K. Munjal

Double intrathoracic meningocele                                       302
B.N. Lakhkar, M.K. Ghosh, U.D. Patil and D.P. Shenoy

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Enlarged thymus treated by steroids                              305
M.H. Mehta and R.V. Patel

Dry syrup formulations of kid tablets                               306
S.K. Bansal

Alcohol in liquid pharmaceutical preprations – harmful for children                         307
G.P. Mathur, Sarla Mathur, V. Bhushan and V. Gupta

Monitoring and continuous education system in ICDS scheme                              308
S.K. Bhasin and S. Singh

Reply                                                          309
U. Kapil

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

Instructive Case                                        311
K. Chugh

Desferrioxamine: Its use in iron chelation in thalassemia                                          314
B.K. Sharma, P. Choudhury and A.P. Dubey