Acute calcium deficiency in relation to disease in farm animals, with special reference to milk fever in cows

The following thesis had its origin in an investigation into the nature of milk fever in cowsm, which the author commenced in 1924 in conjunction with Dr Henry Dryerre, Lecturer in Bio-Physics, Edinburgh University.The causation of milk fever presented a problem in etiology, round which, for the last hundred years, much speculative controversy has centred, and we planned to promulgate a reasoned working hypothesis upon the nature of the disease which could be later subjected to experimental investigation