Rachitis

Rachitis should be fought at the time the child develops in the womb, by properly feeding the mother and preparing her to give it, after birth, healthy milk, with all the elements necessary for bone structure.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

Rachitis is principally lack of lime in the food, which causes parts of the bones to remain soft instead of becoming rigid.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

Rachitis or rickets is not a disease of adult life, but of infancy and childhood, and never occurs after the age of puberty.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Rachitis or rickets is not a disease of adult life, but of infancy and childhood, and never occurs after the age of puberty.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Rachitis is not known in the warmer climates: scrofula seems to exist among the Africans, and more so among the blacks of the Antilles; in China and Japan it is very common; among the Malay and Indo-Chinese races scrofula is common, also in the Algerian and Moorish villages; the Arabs treat the disease by encircling the neck with brier leaves, or a mixture of grenate bark and clean barley.

Labor Among Primitive Peoples 1884