Indeed," I replied, knowing he had a card up his sleeve, for Rickets is quite prone to have his little joke.
Little Archie Rickets has a horror of the tribe and has a scheme to head 'em off.
Rickets was telling me the other day about a wonderful bookkeeper his father used to have in his office.
Still more recently another deficiency disease has been under investigation and Hess has found in cod-liver oil a remedy for rickets that he cannot believe owes its efficiency to the "A" type.
Sherman and Pappenheimer have recently shown that the phosphates exert a marked preventive effect on rickets and suggest that the utilization of the calcium by the individual may be determined in part by this factor.
Scurvy has now been added to the fold and ricketsor rachitis seems well on the way to acceptance though the specific vitamine absent in this case is not yet positively identified.
The views in brief are now in an extremely chaotic state and it is impossible at present to determine whether rickets is a true avitaminose or a consequence of deficiency in a series of factors.
The production ofrickets and similar diseases in the rat by different diets.
The various views on the causes of ricketsare set forth more in detail in Chapter VIII.
Observations onrickets in an out-patient department.
Prophylactic therapy for rickets in a negro community.
Rickets and mollities ossium seem to differ also in this.
In rickets the head is generally enlarged to a greater or less degree, and the bones of the cranium are thickened and spongy; not unfrequently the intellectual faculties remain acute.
Rickets is owing to a want of a sufficient quantity of earthy matter in the bones; hence the bones bend and twist, and lose their shape, causing deformity.
I do not mean to say that rickets always proceeds from poorness of living--from poor milk.
Can it be wondered at, when there is so much poor and nasty milk in England, that rickets in one shape or another is so prevalent?
Rickets generally begins to show itself between the first and second years of a child's life.
If milk were always genuine, and if a child had an abundance of it, my belief is that rickets would be a very rare disease.
When will they know that all the symptoms of rickets I have just enumerated usually proceed from the want of nourishment, more especially from the want of genuine, and of an abundance of, milk?
It seems quite possible that the caries of the permanent teeth is due not only to infantile rickets but also to infantile scurvy.
It is not so long since rickets included almost all the bone diseases of infants.
In 1910 Schaumann suggested that rickets was due to a lack of a specific food factor, and somewhat later Funk included it among the "avitaminosen.
To-day the error is made of regarding early scurvy as chronic rickets; the rickets supposed to be occasioned by a diet of condensed milk is probably more often scurvy.
There seems to be no occasion for giving Moeller credit for discovering this disease, as he believed that he was dealing with rickets merely in an acute form.
There is no doubt that from time to time cases must have occurred, but they were looked upon probably as rickets or as a manifestation of one of the hemorrhagic diseases.
An early sign of infantile scurvy is beading of the ribs--the development of a "rosary" similar to that characteristic of rickets (Fig.
If rickets is proved to be a disorder depending on a vitamine, it belongs, naturally, in the same group as scurvy.
Investigations of the near future will probably decide the merits of this contention; our experience is that rickets develops in infants even where the diet contains adequate fat-soluble vitamine.
This has been frequently described in connection with guinea-pig scurvy; its similarity to the rosary of human rickets has been drawn attention to recently by Jackson and Moore.
It corresponds clinically to the "beading" and the "rosary" so characteristic of infantile rickets and mistakenly termed the "rhachitic rosary.
Several of the older authors have classed rickets in the category of strumous diseases, and it may be that in the fatal cases tuberculosis of the mesenteric glands is a local expression of this diathesis.
Some of the older authors refer to the frequent complication of rickets with tabes mesenterica, and the writer in numerous post-mortem examinations of the bodies of children dying of rickets has invariably found cheesy mesenteric glands.
Footnote 210: For the diagnosis from ricketssee p.
The importance of this sign is greatest when noted early; as, for example, when the child is from two to three months old, for at that period the enlargement of the spleen due to rickets can hardly come into question.
And finally rickets never causes suppuration while this is always the case with inflammation of the spine.
Besides the humpback resulting from rickets appears between the first and fourth years of age, while tuberculous inflammation of the spine rarely begins before the fourth year.
The development of deficiency diseases (scurvy, rickets, xerophthalmia, rickets and malnutrition).
It has been found that the disease rickets is more prevalent in winter than in summer; this is believed to be due to the fact that sunshine during the summer months exerts a distinctly beneficial influence over the disease.
Eddy, "It is impossible at present to determine whether rickets is a true avitaminose or a consequence of deficiency in a series of factors.
This is especially the case in rickets and anemia.
Cod liver oil is known to be rich in "Fat soluble A," but whether the cure of rickets is due to the presence of this vitamine in the oil, or to a possible fourth vitamine, is still undetermined.
Where the deformity has been the result of rickets in early life, a little careful observation of the patient's external appearance will quickly lead the experienced eye to suspect the nature of the case.
It was possible that Rickets didn't want to marry her, that he was in need of protection, of deliverance.
I shouldn't wonder if old Rickets paid up all right, after all.
But Rickets didn't want any supper, and Poppy was visibly abstracted and depressed.
I say, Flossie, have you andRickets been 'aving a bit of a tiff?
The deformity may also be due to rickets which has caused a backward bend of the tibia immediately below its upper epiphysis--sometimes combined with an exaggerated forward curve of the femur.
The most important of these is general debility, but the presence of rickets or tuberculosis, or an intercurrent acute infectious disease, may delay the reparative process.
When the condition is bilateral it is usually the result of disease in the bone, rickets most frequently in this country.
In osteomalacia, the bones are profoundly altered, but they are more liable to bend than to break; in rickets the liability is towards greenstick fractures.
In mild cases, especially when associated with rickets or syphilis, recovery sometimes takes place, but in the majority the condition progresses, and death results either from convulsions or from some intercurrent disease.
The treatment of knock-knee in children is directed towards curing the rickets and preventing the child from putting its feet to the ground.
It may be noted that the scoliosis due to rickets has little tendency towards recovery.
The majority of cases seen in surgical practice suffer from the deformities resulting from rickets rather than from the active disease.
In certain diseases, such as ricketsand inherited syphilis, and in developmental anomalies such as achondroplasia, dwarfing of the skeleton results from defective growth of bone at the ossifying junctions.
Late Rickets# or #Rachitis Adolescentium# is met with at any age from nine to seventeen, and is generally believed to be due to a recrudescence of rickets which had been present in childhood.
There can be no doubt that adolescent rickets plays an important part in the production of the deformities which occur at or near puberty, especially knock-knee and bow-knee.
Rickets is a disease peculiar to childhood, though it may not be developed until a more advanced period of life.
Rickets is a scrofulous disease, in which there is derangement of the entire system, and it finally manifests itself in disease of the bones.
Post-mortem examinations of those who have died of rickets have disclosed morbid changes in the brain, liver, and lymphatic glands.
In recent times it has been usual to restrict the term congenital in rickets to the very few cases that have rickets developed at birth.
The chief exponent of the diathetic views on rickets in our time has been Sir William Jenner (Med.
The detailed application of the physiological facts to rickets I have attempted deductively in section 5 of the article "Pathology" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol.
I am very much persuaded that the circumstances in the rearing of children have less effect in producing rickets than has been imagined.
The congenital nature of rickets is not only an empirical fact, based upon experience, but it is a doctrine of rational pathology.
Rickets is an exquisitely congenital disease, or a disease acquired by the child in the womb from the kind of intra-uterine nutrition that it receives.
All rickets is congenital, although it is rare to find the symptoms made manifest until the infant is nearly a year old.
It is in keeping with this that clinically we note how frequently spasmophilia and rickets occur in the same child.
Calves and foals are less frequently affected with rickets than dogs and pigs.
The prevention and treatment of rickets consists essentially in the improvement of the digestion and general health; hence sunshine, open air, exercise, nourishing food, and tonics are indicated.
Rickets (always a localised disease, usually attacking some part of the skeleton) in this case fastens upon the enchondral cartilages of the long bones.
Rickets is a well-defined malady whose special point of attack is the osseous system in course of formation; but it leaves the nervous system and the genital system unimpaired.
But the thoracic deformities due unquestionably to rickets are of the well-known types that go popularly under the name of hunchback, and are accompanied by curvatures of the vertebral column.
The treatment of rickets is medical and pedagogical combined.
From the victim of rickets to the infantile, to the submicrocephalic, to the ultra-macroscele or ultra-brachyscele, all abnormal organisms may contribute to the number of those predisposed to the social phenomenon of criminality.
An objective knowledge of the first symptoms of rickets ought to be regarded as indispensable on the part of mistresses in children's asylums, and in any case to form an important chapter in pedagogic anthropology.
In early infancy symptoms ofrickets presented themselves, and then disappeared, like an unfulfilled threat: dentition was tardy or irregular; the head was large and with persistent nodules.
Children who bear these stamps of rickets are far more apt than others to suffer from spasmodic croup, and in them it is also specially likely to be severe and to be accompanied by convulsions.
I never yet saw rickets in a child while brought up exclusively at its mother's breast.
Exact instruction of treatment for the rickets is given in a manuscript letter written to Rev.
The Christian can sit still and see children grow up with rickets in their body and rickets in their soul.
The treatment of rickets depends more on proper domestic management than on direct medication.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rickets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anemia; beriberi; dermatitis; goiter; malnutrition; pellagra; rickets; scurvy
