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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].

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

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

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

University College Hospital, London: the outpatients' waiting room and dispensary. Wood engraving, 1872.

De rachitide sive morbo puerili; qui vulgo the rickets dicitur. Tractatus / opera primò ac potissimùm Francisci Glissonii ... conscriptus: adscitis ... Georgio Bate & Ahasuero Regemortero.

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.

Untershungen ueber die sogenannte foetale Rachitis : (Chondrodystrophia foetalis) / von Dr. Eduard Kaufmann.

Johannis Mayow ... Opera omnia medico-physica, tractatibus quinque comprehensa ... / [John Mayow].

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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.

Untershungen ueber die sogenannte foetale Rachitis : (Chondrodystrophia foetalis) / von Dr. Eduard Kaufmann.

Johannis Mayow ... Opera omnia medico-physica, tractatibus quinque comprehensa ... / [John Mayow].