Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings.

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    PROMETHEUS unchangeable. Very properly the medical man rejects that, in its applica¬ tion to disease. But with the recogni¬ tion that to assert that a thing is hereditary signifies merely that the organism has received such a constitu¬ tion as to produce it under given con¬ ditions, all such ground of objection vanishes. This does not deprive of significance recognition of the part played by heredity in medicine ; which is but recognition of constitutional differences that have origin in diversities of the germ cells. The individual who may produce an inherited defect under certain conditions need not produce it under others. Some individuals receive a constitution which resists disease under conditions in which others succumb to it. Some respond in one way to particular therapeutical agents, [64]