Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Not everybody is endowed with the physical strength, the manual skill, and the intelligence required to make a good ' rubber.' RICKETS. This is another term used in this book, and perhaps requiring a short special explanation. It is applied to an affection of early childhood, very common among the ill-fed, badly clothed children of the poor, especially of our large cities. It chiefly manifests itself in a tendency for the bones of the sufferers to grow out of shape. More especially the bones of the limbs curve, the head grows out of proportion to the face, the countenance acquires a character- istic appearance, and the joints become larger than normal. The stature has a tendency to be stunted. am satisfied that a minor degree of rickets often escapes observation, or is neglected, and that such a minor degree is quite capable of modifying the personal appearance in ways indicated in various parts of this work. The treatment of rickets is simple, and is noticed in another part of the book ; but the affection is not one to be trifled with, and demands the care of a doctor. M