Despite being overweight for his age, the child showed signs of severe rickets, a condition caused by vitamin D deficiency. His ribs exhibited a pattern known as rachitic rosary, indicative of ...

A. Palm, first directed the attention of the scientific world to the curative effect of sunlight on rickets. L. J. Harris 1, when dealing with the frequency of the occurrence of rickets in ...

However, his ribs showed malformations known as rachitic rosary, typically associated with severe rickets or scurvy, conditions resulting from vitamin D deficiency (which happens, amongst other ...