Wisconsin medical recorder . ainly finish loser. The manwho lays his head on his pillow tonightto think it over, will lose, start todayif you would save yonr future:Said yesterday to tomorrow, When I was young like youI. too. was fond of boasting Of all I meant to do. —The Pacific. So much for the man with the grealjfear* and the gastric hyposecretionbut there is another and a nobler is exactly what we. the dis-disciples of Esculapius, make it. Eventhough our future were insured, yet we WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 829 should ignore nothing which may be ofbenefit to our patients an
Wisconsin medical recorder . ainly finish loser. The manwho lays his head on his pillow tonightto think it over, will lose, start todayif you would save yonr future:Said yesterday to tomorrow, When I was young like youI. too. was fond of boasting Of all I meant to do. —The Pacific. So much for the man with the grealjfear* and the gastric hyposecretionbut there is another and a nobler is exactly what we. the dis-disciples of Esculapius, make it. Eventhough our future were insured, yet we WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 829 should ignore nothing which may be ofbenefit to our patients and which willbring honor to the our chosen profes-sion. , THE KAFFIR ORANGE. A new food product of special inter-est to physicians is the Kaffir orangedescribed by Dr. J. K. Small in theJournal of the New York BotanicalGarden. Reports and records of edible fruitsof Strychnos or fruits closely relatedto those of strychnine and nux-vomicaplants, have been current for manyyears. They, however, have often beenseriously In the spring of 1903, Dr. David Fair-child introduced plants of a species ofStrychnos from Portugese East Africa,into the Subtropical Garden of theUnited States Department of Agricul-ture at Miami, Florida. These plant?are said to represent the species Strych-nos spinosa. This plant is native of alarge part of Africa lying south of thedesert region. At Miami it is a spine- armed shrub of slow growth, especiallyin its younger stage, with a rambling*habit, more or less drooping, veryslender branches, small leaves, andvery small, as well as inconspicuous,clustered flowers. The size of thebranches, the leaves, and the flowersare each and all out of proportion tothe size and the weights of the are globular, and superficiallythey resemble an orange, even to theexternal coloring, whence, in connec-tion with its geographical range, thename Kaffir orange. The fruits varyjtrom three to four inches in diameterand weigh between one and two poundseach. Ho
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