Annals of medical history . or gastrohthsfrom the gizzard of the common Crayfish(Astacus Jiuviatilis). Since those bodies arcnearly pure calcium carbonate and phos-phate, it may be seen that the child in thiscase was given about ten grains of thecalcium salts at a time. Harris beheved that the testaceous medi-cines were more effective in the treatmentof convulsions if castor was added to them,just as nowadays we give cod liver oil in addition to calcium to children with , which is the secretion of theabdominal glands of the beaver, containsbeside large amounts of the phosphate,car


Annals of medical history . or gastrohthsfrom the gizzard of the common Crayfish(Astacus Jiuviatilis). Since those bodies arcnearly pure calcium carbonate and phos-phate, it may be seen that the child in thiscase was given about ten grains of thecalcium salts at a time. Harris beheved that the testaceous medi-cines were more effective in the treatmentof convulsions if castor was added to them,just as nowadays we give cod liver oil in addition to calcium to children with , which is the secretion of theabdominal glands of the beaver, containsbeside large amounts of the phosphate,carbonate, urate and benzoate of calciumand potassium, about 2 per cent of a some-what volatile aromatic animal fat. It isidle to speculate but it may be that castorcontains the same organic substance towhich cod liver oil owes its influence oncalcium metabolism. And so in the first year of William andMary, Walter Harris, physician of London,treated tetany empirically with calciumsalts according to the best science of his WHAT W AS KAPPA LAMBDA? AX HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, OUTLINED FOR THE READER S AMUSEMENT, AS A TRAGEDY,ACCORDING TO THE USUAL DIVISIONS OF DRAMATIC CONSTRUCTION By CHAUNCEY D. LEAKE MADISON, Muchly on secret organizations in general, arid slightly on Kappa Lanthda in particular. AS long as mankind has existed,apparently, it has been the customfor congenial, and usually con-vivial, spirits to form fraternalcliques. Within these organizations, boundby secret vows and solemn oaths, brother-hood is supposed to reign. Although thehighest ideals toward the betterment ofsociety professedly might always be impliedto the outside world, yet a fundamentalprinciple in every such band is to stand byeach other; stand by each member, comewhat may. All crafts and professions have sufTeredfrom these secret societies at some time orother, and it is doubtful if mankind ingeneral will ever be completely free fromsome sort of esoteric masonry. Like therest of the well


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