rachitis
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Origin of rachitis
1720–30; < New Latin < Greek rhachîtis inflammation of the spine. See rachis, -itis
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Figure 213 shows the appearance during life of a patient with the highest grade of rachitis, and it can be easily understood what a barrier to natural child-birth it would produce.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
A nurse would have said that it was five or six months old, but perhaps it might be a year, for growth, in poverty, suffers heart-breaking reductions which sometimes even produce rachitis.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
They occurred in Guy's Hospital, and were published by H. G. Howse in Guy's Hospital Reports for 1879: On March 15, 1878, Jacobson performed osteotomy upon a child suffering from extreme rachitis.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
A second consequence of this insufficient bodily p. 102nourishment, during the years of growth and development, is rachitis, which is extremely common among the children of the working-class.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
He considered that the moxa must be admitted, without contradiction, to be the remedy par excellence against rachitis.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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