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A crowded street in London. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812.

Glefina : tónico reconstituyente ... / Laboratorios Andromaco.

"Atora" will protect your children! / Hugon & Co. Ltd.

Medical facilities available at a modern health centre contrasted with ill health in old-fashioned housing. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.

The Infant's Preservative : for complaints in the bowels of infants, as wind, gripes, convulsions, &c. for preventing the tooth fever, and rendering the operation of dentition easy and free from danger, for preventing the rickets, and for laying the foundation of a good constitution / prepared by John Atkinson.

A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length, seen from the front and the back. Engraving, 1749.

Vitamalt : the perfect vitamin-food for infants, children and adults : Rich in the essential vitamins A, B, C and D : Especially recommended for delicate and ailing children, nursing & expectant mothers and in all cases of malnutrition and low vitality / Boots Pure Drug Company.

Tractatus quinque medico-physici / Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalis. Ultimus de rhachitide [sic].

Ostogen-A "Frosst" gotas / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; distribuidores exclusivos para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.

The pleasant preparation of Halibut Liver Oil.

On the etiology of rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

The illness of Charles, Duke of Albany (Charles I), from 1600 to 1612 : an historical case of rickets / J.J. Keevil.

Zur Pathologie des Beckens : zwei Abhandlungen / von Anton Friedrich Hohl.

Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis : nebst Beiträgen zur Kenntniss der Knochenresorption und -apposition in verschiedenen Altersperioden und der durchbohrenden Gefässe / von Gustav Pommer.

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Rickets

Images from the collections

Images referencing Rickets

Works from the collections

On the etiology of rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

The illness of Charles, Duke of Albany (Charles I), from 1600 to 1612 : an historical case of rickets / J.J. Keevil.

Zur Pathologie des Beckens : zwei Abhandlungen / von Anton Friedrich Hohl.

Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis : nebst Beiträgen zur Kenntniss der Knochenresorption und -apposition in verschiedenen Altersperioden und der durchbohrenden Gefässe / von Gustav Pommer.

Rickets

Images from the collections

Images referencing Rickets

Works from the collections

On the etiology of rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

The illness of Charles, Duke of Albany (Charles I), from 1600 to 1612 : an historical case of rickets / J.J. Keevil.

Zur Pathologie des Beckens : zwei Abhandlungen / von Anton Friedrich Hohl.

Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis : nebst Beiträgen zur Kenntniss der Knochenresorption und -apposition in verschiedenen Altersperioden und der durchbohrenden Gefässe / von Gustav Pommer.

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