In rachitis epiphyseal swellings are seen at the wrists and ankle-joints, and in superior cases at the ends of the phalanges of the fingers and toes.

When the shaft of a long bone is affected, not only deformity, but even fracture may occur.

Under these circumstances the humerus and femur appear to be the bones most likely to break; there is an associate deformity of the head, known as "craniotabes," together with pigeon-breast and various spinal curvature.

The accompanying illustration is from a drawing of a skeleton in the Warren Museum in Boston.

The subject was an Indian, twenty-one years of age, one of the Six Nations.