Vitamin D Deficiency: Historical Perspectives

Vitamin D Deficiency in a Sunny Country: The Missing Chain

“…In 1822, Sniadecki observed that children living in Warsaw had a high incidence of rickets, whereas children living in rural areas outside Warsaw did not have such an observation. He advocated exposure to sunlight as a means of curing the disease.The major breakthrough in understanding rickets was in the period where the chemical structures of Vitamin D were determined [20][21][22][23][24][25].…”