rickets
The origin and history of rickets.
Etymology
The origin is unclear; it seems to have started as a local dialect name for the disease in Dorset and Somerset, England, before physician Daniel Whistler popularised it as the medical term.
The origin and history of rickets.
The origin is unclear; it seems to have started as a local dialect name for the disease in Dorset and Somerset, England, before physician Daniel Whistler popularised it as the medical term.
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