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Show CUBE ANNOUNCED FOB, ST. VITUS' DANCE. Prof. Loeb Comes to Belief of Nervous Ner-vous People. CHICAGO, Feb. 23. Dr. Jacques Loeb has discovered that muscular and nervous diseases, such as St. Vitus' dance, paralysis, par-alysis, locomotor ataxia and sleeplessness can be cured by administering calcium salts, that is, such salts as are found In well water and many foods. Announcements of this discovery In scientific sci-entific research has just been made. In one of the publications Just issued bv the University of Chicago, Dr. Loeb tells of his experiments on lower forms of life and the conclusions suggested in regard to human beings. Simply stated, the conclusion Is that the presence of calcium salts in the muscles is what prevents their twitching; that practically all nervous diseases are caused by the absence of the calcium and that, therefore, to restore normal conditions, condi-tions, and effect a cure, the treatment Is to dose with calcium salts. |