Who found the cure for rickets?
The need for vitamin D is greater in childhood. In infants and
young children, lack of the vitamin can cause rickets (or
rachitis). Rickets is a bone disorder that results in bowed legs,
knock-knees, curved spines, and other abnormalities. Children with
rickets have been discussed since Galen's time ( A.D. 130-200). A
detailed description of rickets was provided as early as the
seventeenth century. The cause of rickets, however, wasn't
discovered until fairly recently.