Word: ricketsâ
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...Bovie, Professor of Biophysics at Harvard Medical School, have discovered a cure for rickets. The cure consists of a violet ray treatment, wherein the subject is exposed to ultraviolet rays projected by a Cooper-Hewitt lamp through a fused quartz window. Chickens?a kind of fowl peculiarly susceptible to rickets???have been experimented upon with a success which definitely establishes the cure...
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