The influence of the age of parents on the vitality of their children / by Joseph Korösi.

  • József Kőrösy
Date:
1891
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Credit: The influence of the age of parents on the vitality of their children / by Joseph Korösi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    paternal and ^^ilere the motliers are of Lhe same aj^e equi- maternal; cliildren issued from older fattiers or mothers as fatherelder or motherelder and vice versa shall we also speak from fatheryounger and motheryounger children. I. Influence of the maternal age. The deaths caused l^y weak constitution have l)een observed during two years, I^ut inborn debility also for seven years. The further seven years ol^servations extend over the remaining uterine causes (viz. hydrocephalus, rachitis and scrophulosis). These observations reveal the most important fact, Lhat among the youngest mothers (under 1^0 years of age) the weak constituted children are more frequent; this frequency is not only noticed in in]:»orn debility, but — remarkable to see — hi each of the mentioned causes. To furnish loefore all a general vie^v of the facts, we let fellow a general recapitulation : 1^ of the two years observations, relating to weak con- slit Ldion and of seven years observations relating to the other ute- rine causes, to Avhich we add a third column, showing lhe influence of maternal age upo]i the most inq)ortant of the extrauterine causes, viz. the diarrhoea, it is clear that if the parental age exercises influence upon the constituLion and the resisting power of the children, this iniluence ought to be also remarked in the extrauterine causes (inasmuch as these are not caused by violence) and so also in that of diarrhoea. Thus ^ve could not expect, that the frequency
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