. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . nches. Instead of closing at eighteenmonths, it does not close for two or three years. Pot belly is a rickets sign. So is peevishness, a mental irritability nototherwise explainable. Generally speaking, these are early signs and themother who is shrewd enough to find them and change the babys feedingin time never sees the development of bony deformity. Otherwise, presentlythe baby is found to be bowlegged or, what is of much greater importance,the baby, instead of being barrel-chested, is pigeon-breasted; or else, by the 188 SCUEVY—SCEOFULA—RICKETS side of the
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . nches. Instead of closing at eighteenmonths, it does not close for two or three years. Pot belly is a rickets sign. So is peevishness, a mental irritability nototherwise explainable. Generally speaking, these are early signs and themother who is shrewd enough to find them and change the babys feedingin time never sees the development of bony deformity. Otherwise, presentlythe baby is found to be bowlegged or, what is of much greater importance,the baby, instead of being barrel-chested, is pigeon-breasted; or else, by the 188 SCUEVY—SCEOFULA—RICKETS side of the breastbone, and about one inch away on each side, there is arow of beady knobs. Or the skull becomes irregular and distorted, the fore-head large and square, and thin places appear here and thick ones there. While the legs usually bow out, they are liable to twist in any direction. A baby found to be rickety should go under medical direction. Not thatmedicine does much good, for, while phosphorous preparations help and symp-.
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