The lectures of Boyer, upon diseases of the bones / arranged into a systematic treatise by A. Richerand ; translated from the French by M. Farrell.

  • Boyer, Alexis, Baron, 1757-1833.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The lectures of Boyer, upon diseases of the bones / arranged into a systematic treatise by A. Richerand ; translated from the French by M. Farrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (Rickets. Continued.) it sometimes affects the bones of the foetus, but most generally appears from the sixth or seventh to the fourteenth or fifteeutii month after birth; difficult cutting of the teeth has been considered as a cause, ii. i. uncertain whether it is a primary affection, or a symptom of either scrofula, lues, or scurvy j a great connexion appears between it and scrofula, ii. z. progress of the disease, ii. 2. —sometimes extends to produce caries in the bones, or white swelling in the joints, ii. 3. the vertebral column particularly liable to this affection, ii. 3. its effects, when general, on the different bones of the body, ii. 4, 5. conjectures, and queries, as to the proximate cause of rickets, ii. 5. appearance of the different parts, on anatomical inspection after death, ii. 6. opinions as to the cause of the cumture of the bones; opinion of Glisson, attributes it to the irregular accumulation of the humours, ii. 7. —of Mayow; to the tendons being dry and shortened, ii. 7. —may be more probably deduced from the effect of the weight of the body, and muscular contraction, ii. S. hereditary in some families; may in some such instances be traced to a venereal taint, ii. 8. influence of dentition on the production or progress of this disease^ considered, ii. g. —it is singular that the teeth preserve their hardness, ii. 9. prognosis always unfavourable, ii. g. ' the crisis of puberty, or sometimes the diseases to which children are subject, arrests the progress of the complaint, ii. 10. treatment: no medicine of efficacy known; general treatment principally advantageous, ii. 10.