A treatise of the rickets : being a disease common to children / Published in Latin by F. Glisson, G. Bate, and A. Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin.

  • Glisson, Francis, 1597-1677
Date:
1651
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Credit: A treatise of the rickets : being a disease common to children / Published in Latin by F. Glisson, G. Bate, and A. Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (5) wracking or convulfion of the word, the name Rs- ckets may be readily deduced from the Greek word Rachith,or Rachites 5 provided, Thatwe will but al- low that confideration of change, which in vulgar pronounciation ufually happeneth to- words traü- {planted from one Language to another. Anfwer. We Anfwer;It concerns not us whether they were ignorant of, Or thought not upon the Greek word, or whether they did not underftand the principal part that was firft affected; yetare thef thingsfreely afferted. Forwe knew many at that time when the Difeafe did firft {pring up, and the Wame was impofed ; indeed learned men and skil- ful in the Greek tongue, to have their Refidence in thofe places, to whomit was not perhaps any diffi- culty co obferve that confpicuous debility of the Spine in this affe¢t,and thereupon they might affign this Name unto it 5 although tis very poffible, yea probable, That the common peo ple by the error of pronounciation might fornewhat pervert the Name fo given, and expreffe it, as to this day they retain it by the word Rickers. But whether it were, or were not fo, we are not at al folicitous. Ifthe matter were fo, the impofed Name will (as is manifeft) be alto- gether congrucus, and perhaps alfo at the laft will moft fitly correfpond with it, For fuppofe you ( ^ fhould