Dissertatio medica descriptionem et casus aliquot osteomalaciae sistens, auctore Olao Jacobo Ekman, praeside Joh. Gust. Acrell, 4to, Upsaliae.

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1790
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    a condition is the more dangerous, as a large ap- portion is neceffary for the growth of the body. There are, however, Dr Ekman thinks, various ftimuli of this nature to which the infant body is expofed ; and, as fuch, he enumerates affec- tions of the alimentary canal, with depraved digeftion, arifing from bad milk, large quanti- ties of unfermented farina, and other food of difficult digeftion, ill fitted to the tender fto- machs of infants. Such ftimuli are alfo afford- ed by want of cleanlinefs on the furface, her- petic eruptions, excoriations, and the like. Thefe, he remarks, are generally allowed to be the occafional caufes of rachitis ;■ and all of them, he thinks, ad upon the body by a long continued ftimulus, retarding digeftion. The ofteomalacia cachedica, feu adultorum, is, Dr Ekman thinks, alfo to be explained from the influence of long continued ftimuli, which appears from its being univerfally pre- ceded by long continued pains, almoft univer- fally extended over the whole body. From the affedion of the lymphatic glands, which generally occurs in this difeafe, fome authors have fuppofed a fcrofulous humour to pre- vail. But this affedion of the glands rakes place