BLOOD CALCIUM IN SPASMOPHILIA

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Few subjects have received more attention among pediatricians in recent years than the nature, relationships and manifestations of spasmophilia. Regarding many matters, definite and satisfactory conclusions appear to have been reached, while others are subjects of discussion. We agree, for instance, that within certain limits there is, in this condition, a distinct lowering of the percentage of the calcium in the blood; but as to just how this is brought about and just what its actual influence is, there is lack of positive knowledge. We admit that the influence of the parathyroid glands, and perhaps some other endocrine glands, is a powerful factor in some cases of tetany, and the same is true of certain gastric disturbances and of alkalosis; but whether this tetany is the same in ultimate origin as the infantile tetany of spasmophilia does not appear as yet to be decided. We know that the administration of

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