Nutritional rickets is caused by a vitamin D deficiency, and people figured out two ways to treat it before we even knew what vitamin D was. Research: <ul> <li>&ldquo;Oldest UK case of rickets in Neolithic Tiree skeleton.&rdquo; 9/10/2015. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34208976</li> <li>Carpenter, Kenneth J. &ldquo;Harriette Chick and the Problem of Rickets.&rdquo; The Journal of Nutrition, Volume 138, Issue 5, 827 &ndash; 832</li> <li>Chesney, Russell W. &ldquo;New thoughts concerning the epidemic of rickets: was the role of alum overlooked?.&rdquo; Pediatric Nephrology. (2012) 27:3&ndash;6. DOI 10.1007/s00467-011-2004-9.</li> <li>Craig, Wallace and Morris Belkin. &ldquo;The Prevention and Cure of Rickets.&rdquo; The Scientific Monthly , May, 1925, Vol. 20, No. 5 (May, 1925). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/7260</li> <li>Davidson, Tish. "Rickets." The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, edited by Jacqueline L. Longe, 6th ed., vol. 7, Gale, 2020, pp. 4485-4487. Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX7986601644/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=811f7e02. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.</li> <li>Friedman, Aaron. &ldquo;A brief history of rickets.&rdquo; Pediatric Nephrology (2020) 35:1835&ndash;1841. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-019-04366-9</li> <li>Hawkes, Colin P, and Michael A Levine. &ldquo;A painting of the Christ Child with bowed legs: Rickets in the Renaissance.&rdquo; American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics vol. 187,2 (2021): 216-218. doi:10.1002/ajmg.c.31894</li> <li>Ihde, Aaron J. &ldquo;Studies on the History of Rickets. I: Recognition of Rickets as a Deficiency Disease.&rdquo; Pharmacy in History, 1974, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1974). https://www.jstor.org/stable/41108858</li> <li>Ihde, Aaron J. &ldquo;Studies on the History of Rickets. II : The Roles of Cod Liver Oil and Light.&rdquo; Pharmacy in History, 1975, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1975). https://www.jstor.org/stable/41108885</li> <li>Newton, Gil. &ldquo;Diagnosing Rickets in Early Modern England: Statistical Evidence and Social Response.&rdquo; Social History of Medicine Vol. 35, No. 2 pp. 566&ndash;588. https://academic.oup.com/shm/article/35/2/566/6381535</li> <li>O'Riordan, Jeffrey L H, and Olav L M Bijvoet. &ldquo;Rickets before the discovery of vitamin D.&rdquo; BoneKEy reports vol. 3 478. 8 Jan. 2014, doi:10.1038/bonekey.2013.212.</li> <li>Palm, T. &ldquo;Etiology of Rickets.&rdquo; Br Med J 1888; 2 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.2.1457.1247 (Published 01 December 1888)</li> <li>Rajakumar, Kumaravel and Stephen B. Thomas. &ldquo;Reemerging Nutritional Rickets: A Historical Perspective.&rdquo; Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. Published Online: April 2005 2005;159;(4):335-341. doi:10.1001/archpedi.159.4.335</li> <li>Swinburne, Layinka M. &ldquo;Rickets and the Fairfax family receipt books.&rdquo; Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Vol. 99. August 2006.</li> <li>Tait, H. P.. &ldquo;Daniel Whistler and His Contribution to P&aelig;diatrics.&rdquo; Edinburgh Medical Journal vol. 53,6 (1946): 325&ndash;330.</li> <li>Warren, Christian. &ldquo;No Magic Bolus: What the History of Rickets and Vitamin D Can Teach Us About Setting Standards.&rdquo; Journal of Adolescent Health. 66 (2020) 379e380. https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(20)30038-0/pdf</li> <li>Wheeler, Benjamin J et al. &ldquo;A Brief History of Nutritional Rickets.&rdquo; Frontiers in endocrinology vol. 10 795. 14 Nov. 2019, doi:10.3389/fendo.2019.00795</li> <li>World Health Organization. &ldquo;The Magnitude and Distribution of Nutritoinal Rickets: Disease Burden in Infants, Children, and Adolescents.&rdquo; 2019. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep27899.7</li> <li>Zhang, M., Shen, F., Petryk, A., Tang, J., Chen, X., & Sergi, C. (2016). &ldquo;English Disease&rdquo;: Historical Notes on Rickets, the Bone&ndash;Lung Link and Child Neglect Issues. Nutrients, 8(11), 722. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu8110722</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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