“…Lawford Knaggs (1924) cites a patient with multiple fractures at birth, who evidently earned his living even though a cripple for many years, but who in later years was poverty stricken, and as a result of hunger malacia died from multiple fractures at the ripe old age of 68. Brailsford (1953) states that the plasticity of the bones during infancy and adolescence, which causes the pronounced curvatures and deformities, appears to consolidate in early adult life.…”