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Rickets

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Bones - Diseases
Calcium Metabolism Disorders
Vitamin D deficiency

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Images from the collections

Images about Rickets

25 images from works
  • 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.
  • "Atora" will protect your children! / Hugon & Co. Ltd.

Works from the collections

179 works

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    On the etiology of rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

    Mellanby, Edward, Sir, 1884-1955. | Date: [1922?]
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    Experimental rickets : the effect of cereals and their interaction with other factors of diet and environment in producing rickets / by Edward Mellanby.

    Mellanby, Edward, Sir, 1884-1955. | Date: 1925
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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.

    Keevil, J. J. (John Joyce) | Date: 1954
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    Zur Pathologie des Beckens : zwei Abhandlungen / von Anton Friedrich Hohl.

    Hohl, Anton Friedrich, 1789-1862. | Date: 1852
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    Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis : nebst Beiträgen zur Kenntniss der Knochenresorption und -apposition in verschiedenen Altersperioden und der durchbohrenden Gefässe / von Gustav Pommer.

    Pommer, Gustav (Lawyer) | Date: 1885
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Related topics

Osteomalacia
Bone and Bones
Bones - Diseases
Dietary Supplements
London
Scrofula
Disease
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Nutrition
Vitamins

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