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MedicineNutritionPhysiologyBone MetabolismHuman NutritionMineral MetabolismBone FormationBone GrowthBone PhysiologyOsteogenesisPhosphorus NutritionSkeletal BiologyBone-phosphate InteractionsNutritional Effects On BonePhosphorus BiochemistryPhosphorus SupplementationPhosphorus ToxicitySkeletal Mineralization
Since the experimental work of Wegner1 in 1872, showing the effect of phosphorus on growing bones in animals, it has been used more or less extensively as a therapeutic agent in disorders of ossification.Almost no postmortem or other evidence, however, has been offered as to the exact changes which it brings about in the bones of man.