The Bradshaw lecture on some points in heredity delivered before the Royal college of surgeons of England on December 6th, 1911 / by R. Clement Lucas.

  • Lucas, R. Clement (Richard Clement)
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1912
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Credit: The Bradshaw lecture on some points in heredity delivered before the Royal college of surgeons of England on December 6th, 1911 / by R. Clement Lucas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    menced its work. And now they have passed away like a dream, from which the slumberer awakes to enter into new realms of thought. Yet great was their influence, and mighty were the struggles made by observers to force their irre gular cases under the unsympathetic wings of some particular diathesis. The Gouty Diathesis. Of these, the gouty is almost the last survivor, bolstered up by its aristocratic relations, and even more by the parvenu’s wealth, waiting, as I believe, only for the discovery of a particular ferment which causes the precipitation of sodium urate in the most used joint of an overfed and perhaps bibulous person. In this relation it may be interesting to quote Professor Lay cock’s account of the diathesis of the revered founder of this great museum. The Professor of Medicine of Edinburgh thus describes his brother Scot : John Hunter was of the strumous arthritic diathesis with a nervous element also. [A little mixed you will observe.] His florid complexion indicated the vascular element, while his rounded forehead, thickened alæ nasi, thick upper lip, and caries teeth in the upper jaw marked the strumous ten dency.
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