1. On the shoulders of our predecessors

   • Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann

   Editorial Pages: i - i

2. The pioneers of pediatric medicine

   • Otto Heubner

   Announcement Pages: 223 - 223

3. Prognosis in juvenile chronic arthritis

   • E. Stoeber

   Review Pages: 225 - 228

4. Alternate-day prednisone is more effective than intermittent prednisone in frequently relapsing nephrotic syndrome

   • J. Brodehl

   Original Investigations Pages: 229 - 237

5. Infantile spasms: Etiological factors, clinical aspects, and long term prognosis in 200 cases

   • A. Matsumoto
   • K. Watanabe
   • S. Miyazaki

   Original Investigations Pages: 239 - 244

6. Reduction of mortality rate in premature infants by substitution of thyroid hormones

   • W. Schönberger
   • W. Grimm
   • W. Gempp

   Original Investigations Pages: 245 - 253

7. In vivo recording of the glucose- and disaccharide-evoked potentials from the human jejunum in infancy

   • Yutaka Igarashi
   • Masayoshi Himukai
   • Tasuke Konno

   Original Investigations Pages: 255 - 260

8. Granulocyte transfusions in children

   • H. Pflieger
   • M. Wiesneth
   • E. Kleihauer

   Original Investigations Pages: 261 - 266

9. Secondary hyperparathyroidism with 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D deficiency and pseudohypoparathyroidism in childhood: Relationship between plasma 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone levels and urinary cyclic AMP response to exogenous PTH

   • Y. Seino
   • M. Ishida
   • T. Fujita

   Original Investigations Pages: 267 - 271

10. Aarskog syndrome with isolated growth hormone deficiency

    • M. Kodama
    • S. Fujimoto
    • I. Matsuda

    Original Investigations Pages: 273 - 276

11. Determination of protease-cleaved p-Aminobenzoic Acid (PABA) in serum after oral administration of N-benzoyl-L-tyrosyl-p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA-peptide) in children

    • G. Dockter
    • I. Nacu
    • E. Kohlberger

    Original Investigations Pages: 277 - 279

12. Systemic hypertension and aortic obstruction in children

    • S. Shrivastava
    • M. Rajani
    • R. Tandon

    Original Investigations Pages: 281 - 289

13. Familial occurrence of meconium ileus

    • Jean L. Allan
    • Melissa Robbie
    • D. M. Danks

    Original Investigations Pages: 291 - 292

14. Controlled fall in natremia in hypertonic dehydration: Possible avoidance of rehydration seizures

    • A. Kahn
    • D. Blum
    • E. Brachet

    Original Investigations Pages: 293 - 296

15. Enhancement of the phototherapy effect by albumin in Gunn rats. Investigations on the optimal albumin dose

    • G. Wiese
    • L. Ballowitz

    Original Investigations Pages: 297 - 302

16. Uridine diphosphate galactose 4-epimerase deficiency

    • K. Oyanagi
    • F. Nakata
    • N. Ichihara

    Original Investigations Pages: 303 - 304

17. Dietary therapy in two patients with vitamin B₁₂-unresponsive methylmalonic acidemia

    • T. Satoh
    • K. Narisawa
    • K. Oohara

    Original Investigations Pages: 305 - 312

18. Virilizing hepatoblastoma—Significance of alpha-1-fetoprotein and human chorionic gonadotropin as tumor markers in diagnosis and follow-up

    • U. E. Heinrich
    • M. Bolkenius
    • W. E. Brandeis

    Case Reports Pages: 313 - 317

19. A variant of the Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome

    • W. Wöckel
    • K. Scheibner
    • A. Lageman

    Case Reports Pages: 319 - 324

20. Glycogenosis type Ib. Further evidence for a membrane disease

    • J. Schaub
    • K. Bartholomé
    • H. Schmidt

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 325 - 325

21. 17th Workshop for Pediatric Research

    Abstracts Pages: 327 - 327