On the Transmission from Parent to Offspring of Some Forms of Disease and of Morbid Taints and Tendencies |
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... birth ; this is speedily subdued by treatment , and the child thrives for a time . During the period of teething , or after that of weaning , an eruption of vesicular or squamous character breaks out , attributed usually to error in ...
... birth ; this is speedily subdued by treatment , and the child thrives for a time . During the period of teething , or after that of weaning , an eruption of vesicular or squamous character breaks out , attributed usually to error in ...
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... birth of an albino child of dark parents is occasionally seen . This white person is very different however from the European albino . The skin is milk - white , beset all over , more or less , with a short , fine , milk - white down ...
... birth of an albino child of dark parents is occasionally seen . This white person is very different however from the European albino . The skin is milk - white , beset all over , more or less , with a short , fine , milk - white down ...
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... birth - are liable to be revived in the offspring . Dr. Watson , speaking on this subject , has alluded to the American calculating boy , Zerah Colburn . A great number of individuals of this boy's family , descended from a common ...
... birth - are liable to be revived in the offspring . Dr. Watson , speaking on this subject , has alluded to the American calculating boy , Zerah Colburn . A great number of individuals of this boy's family , descended from a common ...
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... birth is of rare occurrence . We have a royal instance on record of this kind of precocity ; but Nature in her operations is no respecter of persons , and is equally liberal in her bequeathments to the subject and the sove- reign . A ...
... birth is of rare occurrence . We have a royal instance on record of this kind of precocity ; but Nature in her operations is no respecter of persons , and is equally liberal in her bequeathments to the subject and the sove- reign . A ...
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... birth , and I thought the head would become symmetrical , but it did not . His paternal uncle , a man of singular propensities , has the same confor- mation . The law of hereditary transmission has been recognized by writers from an ...
... birth , and I thought the head would become symmetrical , but it did not . His paternal uncle , a man of singular propensities , has the same confor- mation . The law of hereditary transmission has been recognized by writers from an ...
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abscess afterwards appeared attack attended became birth blood blotches body cervix chancre character child cicatrix cloth colour complaint continued cured cutaneous dark-red delivery died disappeared discharge disorder doses emaciated eruptions erythema excoriated existed external Fcap fibrin fissured form of disease full term gonorrhoea guaiacum hereditary husband infant infection inflamed inflammation inoculation instances inunction ioduretted sarsaparilla irritable labia labium labouring leucorrhoea liable limbs lips lues venerea marriage medicine ment mercury months morbid mother mucous nature noticed observation occupied offspring organs orifice pain parents patches patient peculiar period poison Post 8vo practice preceding pregnancy previously primary affection psoriasis ptyalism pudendum purulent racter remarkably remedy result rheumatism scaly scrofulous Second Edition secondary syphilis similar skin sore throat specific still-born suffered supervening surface sycosis symptoms taint tion treated treatment tubercles ulcers urethra uterine uterus vagina venereal affection venereal disease vulva weeks wife
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