Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1942. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-57).

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The subject of rickets is one to which I have given much thought during several years of an intimate experience in the management of the disease. I have been particularly impressed by its great prevalence amongst the more crowded districts and lower classes of our city population as compared with the less populous, but not necessarily less fortunately circumstanced country localities. I have likewise observed marked differences in physique between the parents of the city and those of the country; also the apparent contempt of the citizen parent for the health-giving influences of fresh air. Even more so have I noticed the crass ignorance exhibited in the choice of proper articles of diet for the rearing of children of tender years. Another striking factor is the appalling death-rate amongst young children from this disease and its protean consequences, a death-rate which, in this so called enlightened age, is not showing the diminution it should do: largely, in my opinion, owing to the invincible ignorance and obstinacy of the lower-class mother. She, in not a few instances, insists in bringing up her infant in the same faulty way as she herself was reared. In these cases the fussy grandmother is the bugbear of every family practitioner. "Children are not reared nowadays as they were in my time," she says. Granted; and it is well for the present-day pediatric prospects that usually they are not. The grandmother-empiric, when inclined to practice her domestic medicine with its nonsensical basis, is an everyday evil, and should be fought at every turn. There is too great a tendency on the part of some practitioners to agree with her for the sake of peace and popularity and recommendation: this fact, particularly in slum experience, I have from time to time observed. "Look at me," she commands the anxious mother, "I was reared on such and such a food or in this or that way, and what's good enough for your mother should be good enough for your bairn." Authority has spoken and nothing more can be said.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1928. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 22-23.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1928. / Typescript. Vita. Witht his is bound: Calcium and magnesium relations in the animal / by W.P. Elmslie and H. Steenbock. Reprinted from Journal of biological chemistry, vol. LXXXII, no. 3 (June 1929), p. 611-632. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).

The transition during the fall of the Roman Empire and eventual rise of Merovingian kingdoms in northern Gaul (modern France) was a period of political upheaval, and social and economic instability. A collection of subadult skeletal remains dating to the late Roman (3rd – 5th c. AD) and Merovingian period (5th – 8th c. AD) in modern day Lisieux, France, permitted an analysis of the effects of these purported stresses on past population health using measures of growth and development. The four aims of this study are to: 1) identify growth delay using measures of growth and development; 2) determine the prevalence of rickets in this sample; 3) determine if growth disruption and frequency of rickets varied between subadults of different ages, time periods, from different burial types, or those associated with and without grave goods; and 4) discuss how the results of this study contribute to an understanding of the interpretation of health at the site, and the social, cultural, and environmental circumstances that impacted health in the past. The remains of 130 subadults from the Michelet necropolis were examined for the presence of rickets as a part of the SSHRC funded project ‘Social-Cultural Determinants of Community Wellbeing in the Western Roman Empire: Analysis and Interpretation of Vitamin D Status.’ A subset of this sample (N=60) was used further to examine disruptions in endochondral growth, appositional growth, cortical thickness, and body mass estimates. Results indicate over half (53%) of the sample exhibited stunting with growth delay beginning around two years of age, highly variable cortical thickness for age, as well as low estimates of body mass for age. Approximately 9% of subadults (N=12/130) analysed exhibited pathological and radiographic features characteristic of rickets. There were no differences between patterns of growth faltering and presence of rickets during the two time periods, between individuals with or without grave goods, or between those in different burial types. The presence of growth faltering and rickets demonstrates that this population experienced nutritional stresses, but that there were no measurable changes in health between the Roman and Merovingian periods. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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