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Rachitis

a term which properly implies inflammation of the spine, but it is applied to the disease called rickets, which term suggested this as the scien tific name. a which term suggested this as the scien tific name.

Russian pianist and composer. Born in the province of Novgorod in 1873, at nine years of age he entered the St.

Petersburg Conservatory.

When he nine years of age he entered the St. tory in 1893 he produced his first opera graduated from the Moscow Conservataught in the Moscow Girls' Institute, and from 1904-1906 was the conductor of the Moscow Imperial Theater. For the next few years he traveled in Europe and self exclusively to creative work. He has written two operas in addition to the RACINE one already mentioned, "The Niggardly Knight" and "Francesca da Rimini."

He has composed a great deal of piano Death."

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