A treatise on rickets : with a new theory of ossification, and a plate and description of an improved reclining couch for the distorted / by G. Hume Weatherhead.

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A treatise on rickets : with a new theory of ossification, and a plate and description of an improved reclining couch for the distorted / by G. Hume Weatherhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to this disease. Hippocrates relates a case of this kind in Lib. 2. De Morbis Vulgaribus, to: this effect: “ Antigenis uxor que ad Nicho- machum habitabat, carnosum puerum peperit,. membris quidem et. precipuis corporis parti- bus distinctum, magnitudinem vero quatuor digitorum qui non excederet, totusque esset exossis, tandem etiam crassus et rotundus.”* Pinel likewise gives an instance of a ricketty foetus in Fourcroy’s journal. 4 4 : @ o Rickets is distinctly a disease in the train * Ought it not to excite our indignation te perceive | how few, since the time of the faithful and adoring Foésius, are inclined to do honour to the great and immortal Hippocrates. Mr. Hunter has had his snivelling panegy- -rists, whose vapid attempts at fervid enthusiasm put me more in mind of the clumsy efforts a goose makes to fly than any thing else. To claim to be the eulogist of any great man (and one among whom was certainly Joln Hunter) is to insult the apprehension of others; it is iu fact as ridiculously offensive as the holding up a rush-light would be to shew the sun in his zenith. « Miserum est aliorum incumbere fame.” JUV,