"Rachitic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and discarding all the animals that departed from the type sought. But many of these breeds are also the result of accident, or rather of modifications of certain parts of the organism—of a sort of rachitic or teratological degeneration which has become hereditary and has been due to domestication; for it is proved that the dog is the most anciently domesticated animal, and that its submission to man ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 • Various |
