“This product has lost most of its vitamins A and D, which are needed to ward off xerophthalmia and rickets.”

“This is because the amount of vitamin D contained in human milk is not sufficient to prevent rickets.”

“Frank rickets or osteomalacic myopathy are only occasionally seen, usually in those already predisposed to metabolic bone disease.”

“How it paid him might be inferred from the oldness of his clothes and the ricketiness of his office.”

“Although its technology is state-of-the-art, the impression of ricketiness gives you a real old-time thrill.”

“A powder ground from its dry leaves has been used to fight anaemia, ricketiness, dysentery, rheumatism, asthma and is also used as a tonic.”