/library/oar/handle/123456789/43977 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:41:45 GMT 2025-11-11T17:41:45Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/44041 Title: Mental subnormality Abstract: The Year of the Child is a good opportunity to review some of the epidemiological aspects and problems facing the mentally retarded. These are people who mentally grow very slowly and thus remain to all intents and purposes children for most if not all their life. Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/44041 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/44039 Title: Psychological aspects of road traffic accidents Abstract: The mortality and morbidity from road traffic accidents are increasing annually in nearly all the developed countries. Whereas transport statisticians are able to show a reduction in road accident casualties in relation to the total number of motor vehicles, to the estimated annual number of kilometers driven, to traffic density and to various other criteria; public health authorities point out that the total number of deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents continues to increase and to become more and more important in the overall public health problem. It is likely that the worldwide annual number of deaths from road traffic accidents will reach a quarter of a million and the number of injuries exceed 10 million within a very few years. Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/44039 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/44038 Title: The "ten commandements of psychiatry" Abstract: I was recently discussing the symptomatology of a psychiatric case with a colleague in the presence of a final year medical student. When my colleague left, the student confessed that he felt bewildered by what he called the "abstract" nature of mental disorder and its manifestations. He intends devoting himself to general practice and as he is well aware that a good proportion of his future patients will be psychiatric ones, he has asked me whether it is possible for me, to reduce the 'subject matter of psychiatric guidelines and thus spare him the pitfalls of any fumbling approaches to his patients. Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/44038 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/44037 Title: Worldwide and local epidemiology of diabetes mellitus Abstract: Diabetes mellitus is a disorder of metabolism characterised by hyperglycemia due to deficiency or diminished effectiveness of insulin. The disease is a chronic one affecting carbohydrate, protein, fat, water and electrolyte metabolism. In its fully developed form it is characterized by fasting hyperglycemia, atherosclerosis, microangiopathy and neuropathy. Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/44037 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z