Observations sur la nature, et sur le traitement du rachitisme, per [i.e. par] Antoine Portal, professeur de medecine, &c., 8vo, Paris, 1797.

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1798
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Credit: Observations sur la nature, et sur le traitement du rachitisme, per [i.e. par] Antoine Portal, professeur de medecine, &c., 8vo, Paris, 1797. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    X. VIII. {. % « Oifervations Sur la Nature, et fur le Traite- < du Rachitifme. Per Antoine Por- tal, Profejfeur de Medicine, i$c. 8vo. Paris, 1797. M PORTAL, who has had very ex- . tenlive experience in cafes of ric- kets, exhibits in this work a view of the refult of his practice in that difeafe. Every cafe of mollifies offium, he confiders to be Rachitis, and confequently, according to him, the difeafe occurs at every different period of life. He imagines that it is generally fymptomatic, arifing from fome previous complaint, and he doubts entire'y the ex- iftence of idiophatic rickets. He divides the fymptomatic difeafe into fix fpecies, ex- perience, he fays, having convinced him, that