RACHITIS
RACHITIS. Here we have a disease common to all nations, climes, and kindred, with symptoms, phases, and features that are plainly recognized the world over; a disease which, while rarely fatal, produces serious and irreparable ravages in the framework of the organism, which in its advanced stages affects every organ and every tissue in the body; stunting the growth of the young, a blemish upon the beauty of the mature, a serious menace to maternity from distortion of the pelvis; a disease whose effects we are powerless to overcome, and yet one which is conceded by all authorities to be easily preventable.