1. Good wine is always welcome

   • Ishwar C. Verma

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 2

2. Appropriate strategy for childhood immunization in India

   • T. Jacob John
   • Mark C. Steinhoff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 7

3. Do intramuscular injections predispose children to paralysis if later exposed to poliomyelitis virus?

   • I. C. Verma

   Miscellaneous Pages: 7 - 7

4. In defence of the lung

   • R K. Chandra
   • Gloria Heresi
   • Liana Schlesinger

   Symposium on Respiratory Disorders Pages: 9 - 12

5. Pulmonary immune response in health and disease

   • Sudhir Gupta

   Symposium on Respiratory Disorders Pages: 13 - 19

6. Do children with recurrent upper respiratory infections (URI) deserve investigations for allergy?

   • I. C. Verma

   Miscellaneous Pages: 19 - 19

7. Respiratory failure in newborns, infants and children

   • Kumar G. Belani
   • Ian J. Gilmour
   • Theodore R. Thompson

   Symposium on Respiratory Disorders Pages: 21 - 36

8. Chemotherapeutic treatment of dental caries

   • I. C. Verma

   Miscellaneous Pages: 36 - 36

9. Epidemiology of a cute respiratory disease in North India

   • I. C. Verma
   • P. S. N. Menon

   Symposium on Respiratory Disorders Pages: 37 - 40

10. First aid for cobra bites

    • I. C. Verma

    Miscellaneous Pages: 40 - 40

11. Status asthmaticus in pediatric practice

    • Lata Kumar

    Symposium on Respiratory Disorders Pages: 41 - 45

12. Use of nasal filters in naso-bronchial allergy

    • J. S. Pasricha

    Symposium on Respiratory Disorders Pages: 47 - 50

13. Simple instruction for using pressurised aerosol bronchodiladilators

    • I. C. Verma

    Miscellaneous Pages: 50 - 50

14. The diagnosis of tuberculosis in pediatric practice

    • H. B. Dingley

    Symposium on Respiratory Disorders Pages: 51 - 53

15. Diagnostic procedures in respiratory disorders

    • A. Chetty

    Symposium on Respiratory Disorders Pages: 55 - 59

16. Early diagnosis of intrauterine infection by staphylococcal protein A adsorption of neonatal serum

    • I. C. Verma

    Miscellaneous Pages: 59 - 59

17. Spectrum of respiratory distress syndrome in the newborn in North India: A prospective study

    • S. Thomas
    • Ishwar C. Verma
    • P. S. N. Menon

    Original Articles Pages: 61 - 65

18. Serum cholinesterase activity in malnutrition and other childhood disorders

    • M. Nagarai Rao
    • Bhagirathraj
    • K. M. Kutty

    Original Articles Pages: 67 - 69

19. Prevalence of poliovirus antibodies in healthy children of Ahmedabad

    • R. K. D. Goel
    • C. I. Jhala
    • R. C. Mehta

    Original Articles Pages: 71 - 74

20. A study of physical growth in breast-fed and bottle-fed male infants

    • L. S. Sidhu
    • R. Grewal
    • D. P. Bhatnagar

    Original Articles Pages: 75 - 79

21. Management of childhood empyema thoracis

    • I. C. Verma

    Miscellaneous Pages: 79 - 79

22. An anthropometric study of body size in Down syndrome

    • Sushma Jaswal
    • I. J. S. Jaswal

    Original Articles Pages: 81 - 84

23. Physical growth of children with down syndrome in India

    • Harshpal S. Sachdev
    • P. Shankar Narayanan Menon
    • Om P. Ghai

    Original Articles Pages: 85 - 89

24. Varus and valgus: no wonder they are confused

    • I. C. Verma

    Miscellaneous Pages: 89 - 89

25. Physiology for pediatricians

    • D. Vidyasagar

    Original Articles Pages: 91 - 91

26. Physiological anemia of infancy and anemia of prematurity

    • Sudha Rao

    Original Articles Pages: 93 - 98

27. The ‘puddle sign’ to detect minimal ascites

    • I. C. Verma

    Miscellaneous Pages: 98 - 98

28. Pulmonary fibrosis in children

    • Anbu Chetty
    • V. P. Choudhry

    Original Articles Pages: 99 - 101

29. Recommendations for research on acute respiratory disease (ARD) in India

    Original Articles Pages: 103 - 103

30. Treatment of empyema thoracis with intercostal tube drainage

    • Hifzur Rahman
    • Jagdish K. Misra
    • Prem Kumar

    Brief Reports Pages: 105 - 107

31. Notes and news

    Miscellaneous Pages: 107 - 107

32. Congenital choanal atresia in infants and children

    • M. S. Madan
    • N. B. Nandy
    • R. Saikhedkar

    Brief Reports Pages: 109 - 111

33. Tubercular osteomyelitis of skull

    • B. Bhandari
    • S. L. Mandowara
    • Harish Joshi

    Brief Reports Pages: 113 - 115

34. Books received

    Announcement Pages: 115 - 115

35. Pulmonary tuberculosis in children with acute lymphatic leukemia

    • V. P. Choudhry

    Brief Reports Pages: 117 - 119

36. Differential diagnosis of childhood psychoses

    • Prakash B. Behere

    Editorial Correspondence Pages: 122 - 122