The healing of renal rickets

Little has been added to the knowledge of the treatment of renal rickets since the paper by Graham and Oakley (1938), and the reader is referred to their work for a summary of the previous literature of this condition. Whether or not in fact rickets is the principal bony lesion has been questioned by Langmead and Orr (1933). From a morbid anatomical study, they concluded that osteitis fibrosa was the outstanding pathological change in the bones, and attributed this to *osteoclastic activity caused by excessive parathyroid function. They were able to demonstrate the presence of hyper-trophy of the parathyroid glands. Their view has received support in America from such authorities as Park and Eliot (1942), and Hamilton (1940) who