Abstract
Not all the factors concerned in the etiology of rickets are known. The most that there is justification for asserting is that certain agents are known which, when used, exercise a beneficial effect in arresting the pathologic processes and restoring the injured tissues to a condition that approximates normal. The vitamins have been studied with much more thoroughness than have the mineral elements. There is fairly definite knowledge of a few of the mineral salts such as calcium and phosphorus, but knowledge of the functions of such elements as silicon and fluorine, which appear to be necessary in the growth of bones and teeth, is most elementary. Little is known of the relation between the vitamins and the mineral elements of the food, but in this connection it is interesting to note that the diet of Eskimos who are relatively free from rickets consists largely of raw liver and the
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