In 1921, Elmer McCollum identified an antirachitic substance found in certain fats that could prevent rickets.
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Lipid from fish oil was used to cure rickets in rats, and the fat-soluble nutrient was called " antirachitic A ".
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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.