In connection with rachitis and scrofula a ravenous appetite is often manifested. |
Without these affections of the osseous system the diagnosis of rachitis is not complete. |
Defective calcification of the forming bone is one of the principal characteristics of rachitis. |
The head, however, is liable to exhibit symptoms of rachitis at a very early period of life. |
The symptoms of rachitis become apparent at the pelvis and at the wide open, soft parts of the skull, the unossified fontanelles. |
It has been erroneously confounded by some writers with bronchocele and rachitis, from both of which it is totally distinct. |