The prevention of disease / [by various authors] ; translated from the German ; with an introduction by H. Timbrell Bulstrode.

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1902
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    a child U ton apparently tealthy-that is -^J^^^^^^^^^ H„do-e_or really healthy, then later it becomes ill w thout any apparent erternal cause. In the case o microbic Zasefthere is then the Pof^mty that the exciting^^^^^^^^ flisBase ftlie tubercle bacillus or the unknown 1 ohe syThiHs) was born with the child, though it had no yet become possible for it to cause any Pf ol°S' eff ct^s, and this possibility occurs only m -t>^- Such cases are rare but they ^0 ccur for example n tuberculosis. But this knowledge does not m any way aid fsolvrg the problem of heredity. I-.*-J^f -j] it is obviously a case of intra-uterine infection, indeea I e cai:: neld not to be separated fron. intra-uterine infection had produced ^^^^X}^^'''''''l^'ZZt This fact needs to be emphasised in any discussion. That It trit: problem of heredity is not f^^^^^y^]^^^! as to whether and how far we are to accept the tact oi an tta-lrine infection, will be evident fen we reni^^^^^^^ that the chief hereditary diseases are not infective diseases What is it that is transmitted by heredity in mental and Ivon d eases, in diseases of metabolism, or - the so-called ^o^tHutional diseases which are justly 'e^-f l^-«a Tt U merelv a certain weakness of some organ or tissue, a -rkt^d of vitaUneffi^^^ncy w^^^^^^^^^ =;trncture more susceptible to external iiijui^u structuie ni r . ^ congenital :'!c-^:tn«T;arioI^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ n the My has been shown by clinical experience for Tve a thoLand years, and .^^^^tnc^Jal ..dividual bl^: is ^whether what are the conditions under tl,e Sio^ r wrh:ionrSe- ^^^^ - ^-xfr:m^of no ^^^srrrindfviS' ^s^^^- - «^ ^ 74-