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rachitic



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A sequence of rachitic little drawings by Tracey Emin – whose monoprints are so ubiquitous as to have become museum wallpaper – cannot compete with those of her heroine, Louise Bourgeois.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2012

Before she was three years old, a series of infantile diseases had left Gwen so rachitic and knock-kneed that she could barely walk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was small, rachitic, poor and struggling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manhattan's sensitive transportation, from scabby subways to rachitic taxicabs, were strained to the limit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harris gives an account of an operation upon a rachitic dwarf who was impregnated by a large man, a baby weighing 14 pounds and measuring 20 inches being delivered by the knife.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)




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