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The physical disorder is akin to Rachitis, or rickets, while the mental is substantially idiocy.
He was appalled by this mysterious multiplication of his person, and by the flushed and brilliant infamy of his face. The face was the worst; he thought he had never seen anything so detestable as the face. He sat down and hid it in his hands. "Poor Rickets," said Poppy softly. She drew his hands from his face by a finger at a time. "Oh, Ricky-ticky, you are such a rum little fellow.
Surely young men and women should be taught something of the causes of zymotic disease, and of scrofula, consumption, rickets, dipsomania, cerebral derangement, and such like. They should be shown the practical value of pure air, pure water, unadulterated food, sweet and dry dwellings.
Show me a child that is rickety, and I can generally prove that it is owing to poor living, more especially to poor milk. If milk were always genuine, and if a child had an abundance of it, my belief is that rickets would be a very rare disease. The importance of genuine milk is of national importance.
Did I ever tell you that story about the slide in Rickets Gulch?" asked the Honourable Brush Bascom. But first let me make you acquainted with Mr. Humphrey Crewe of Leith. Mr. Crewe has come down here with the finest lot of bills you ever saw, and we're all going to take hold and put 'em through. Here, Lish, I'll give you a set." "Read 'em, Mr. Jane," urged Mr. Crewe.
The nodules or "adventitious joints" were the result of imperfect ossification, or, in other words, of motion before ossification was completed. Analogous to rachitis is achondroplasia, or the so called fetal rickets a disease in which deformity results from an arrest, absence, or perversion of the normal process of enchondral ossification.
The results of overproduction on the children are frequently, that they are sickly, short-lived, or suffer from rickets, cerebral paralysis, idiocy, or imbecility. And last, but certainly not least, many women become chronic invalids, or are hastened to premature graves, by having children as fast as they possibly can.
One beautiful child had the rickets, and several suffered from intestinal prolapsus and other internal complaints, but were on the road to recovery. While their Swedish nurse was putting them through their gymnastic exercises I studied their faces.
He had tried hard to persuade himself that he was glad for Flossie's sake when Miss Harden went away; when, whatever there had been between Rickets and the lady, it had come to nothing; when the wedding day remained fixed, immovably fixed. But he had not been glad at all. On the contrary he had suffered horribly, and had felt the subsequent delay as a cruel prolongation of his agony.
Makebelieve discussed to her daughter, as also of the carpet which might have been woven in Turkey or elsewhere, the sideboard that possibly was not mahogany, and the chairs and occasional tables whose legs had attained to rickets through convulsions; the curtains of cream-colored lace which were reinforced by rep hangings and guarded shutters from Venice, also the deer's head which stood on a shelf over the door and was probably shot by a member of the family in a dream, and the splendid silver tankards which flanked this trophy and were possibly made of tin.
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