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Excerpt from The Lectures of Boyer Upon Diseases of the Bones, Vol. 2 of 2: Arranged Into a Systematic Treatise This disease is most generally met with in young children, and but very seldom in adults; however, persons that have suffered from it in their youth, may be attacked with it after puberty. The memorable case given by Morand in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, 1753 furnishes a remarkable instance of its attack after this period of life. The bones of the f tus whilst in the womb may be affected by it: Pinel has given, in Fourcroy's Journal, a description of the skeleton of a ricketty f tus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."