On the Transmission from Parent to Offspring of Some Forms of Disease and of Morbid Taints and Tendencies |
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... manner these efforts are sometimes marred , and not seldom frus- trated , by the agency of malign influences originating in human error . In the course of my investigations into the nature and forms of uterine diseases , some of the ...
... manner these efforts are sometimes marred , and not seldom frus- trated , by the agency of malign influences originating in human error . In the course of my investigations into the nature and forms of uterine diseases , some of the ...
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... manner a disastrous result . In other instances disease of the mucous tissues deve- lopes itself , the direct effect of perverted nutrition , with impairment of the assimilative function of the solid fabric . Thus the rachitic diathesis ...
... manner a disastrous result . In other instances disease of the mucous tissues deve- lopes itself , the direct effect of perverted nutrition , with impairment of the assimilative function of the solid fabric . Thus the rachitic diathesis ...
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... manner necessitated the enactment of that portion of the Levitical code which prohibits intermarriage within certain degrees of kindred , —a law which has been respected , with tolerable exactness , in most civilized countries to the ...
... manner necessitated the enactment of that portion of the Levitical code which prohibits intermarriage within certain degrees of kindred , —a law which has been respected , with tolerable exactness , in most civilized countries to the ...
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... manners and customs of the Germans -a people remarkable in his day for their virtuous lives and athletic frames , that " the large limbs and muscular forms of the parents were expressed in the shape of their children . " The subject has ...
... manners and customs of the Germans -a people remarkable in his day for their virtuous lives and athletic frames , that " the large limbs and muscular forms of the parents were expressed in the shape of their children . " The subject has ...
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... manner subject to continuation , and even to further exaggeration in transitu . It is tolerably certain that the condition most liable to reappear in the offspring is that disposition of organic arrangement which we denominate ...
... manner subject to continuation , and even to further exaggeration in transitu . It is tolerably certain that the condition most liable to reappear in the offspring is that disposition of organic arrangement which we denominate ...
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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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