antirachitic

The treatment and prevention of rickets is known as antirachitic.

Initially, lipid from fish oil was used to cure rickets in rats, and the fat-soluble nutrient was called "antirachitic A".

Pechet made substantial contributions to the field of internal medicine, in particular in the domain of developing new antirachitic sterols to treat metabolic bone disease.

He obtained a licence to fortify Glaxo powder with antirachitic vitamin D, using Theodore Zucker's process for the extraction of the vitamin from fish-liver oil.