The cause and treatment of rickets / by Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1876
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    that scrofula plays no part in the etiology of rickets. Cod-liver oil he thinks the best remedy. V'- Of Sir William Jenner’s work on Rickets, that may be repeated wdiich Johnson says of Milton's epic, that it is only not the greatest of its kind because it is not the first. It is altogether drawn from observation of patients. He goes into the causes of death more fully than his predecessors have done. The commonest is bronchitis; the others general cachexia, albuminoid infiltration, laryngismus stridulus, chronic hydrocephalus, convul¬ sions, and diarrhoea. Dr. G-ee's papers on Rickets contain another series of original observations. He has “ never recognised rickets setting in de novo later than at twenty months. He adds to the subject a more precise account of the shape of the rickety skull than is to be found in any previous writer. There are many other * treatises on this disease, most of which I have examined; but all that is of value is to be found in the seven I have described. Van Swieten’s Boerliaave and Bey land’s should be read first, as an intro¬ duction to the book-knowledge of the disease. Glisson, Guerin, Trousseau, Jenner, and Gee are faithful guides * Mayow, J., “ Tractatus quinque Medico-Physici,” p. 109, Oxford, 1674 ; Whistler, D., “De Morbo Puerili,” London, 1684; Van Dalem, J. F., “ De Rachitide,” Lugd. Bat. 1732 ; Jay, S., “ De Rachitide,” Lugd. Bat. 1762 ; Bromfield, “ Surgical Observations,” vol. ii., London, 1773; Zeviani, G. V., “ Della Cura de’ Bambini Attaccati dalla Rachi¬ tide,” Napoli, 1775 ; Underwood, M., “A Treatise on the Disorders of Childhood,” ed. 2, London, 1801, vol. i. p. 281; Weatherhead, C. H., “ A Treatise on Rickets,” London, 1835; Vogel, “Diseases of Chil¬ dren” (tr. Raphael), New York, 1871 ; Theryc, J., “ De l’influence du Rachitis sur la dentition et sur la locomotion,” Paris, 1872.
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