The influence of heredity on disease : with special reference to tuberculosis, cancer and diseases of the nervous system a discussion / opened by Sir William S. Church, Sir William R. Gowers, Arthur Latham and E.F. Bashford.

Date:
1909
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Credit: The influence of heredity on disease : with special reference to tuberculosis, cancer and diseases of the nervous system a discussion / opened by Sir William S. Church, Sir William R. Gowers, Arthur Latham and E.F. Bashford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Segregation of alternative characters in gametes, fundamental conception of Mendelism, 116 Senile dementia, see Dementia, senile Sex-limited abnormalities, 88 diseases, 28, 30, 89 Sheep, examples of mutation among, 115 not immune to tuberculosis, 83 Shirley poppies, graded reductions in colour, 108, 111, 114 Shrubsall, F. C.—Discussion on heredity in relation to tuberculosis, 89 , investigation of records of tuberculosis at Brompton Hospital quoted, 50 Skull, see Cranium Spina bifida, hereditary transmission of, 101 , proof wanting, 16 Spinal cord, tumours of, rarity militates against idea of hereditary disposition to, 15, 16 Spirochceta pallida, congenital syphilis due to direct transmission of, 48 Split hand and foot, 54 , pedigree of numbers of affected and normals traced from, 26 Squire, J. E., C.B.—Discussion on heredity in tuberculosis, 60 Statistics of heredity in insanity, 140 unreliable, 31, 35, 40, 41, 44, 45 of heredity in tuberculosis limited to cases with definite clinical signs, 49 limited to pulmonary form, 49, 58, 59 unreliable, 48, 58, 59, 60, 61, 84 , causes of unreliability, 48-50 Stuttgart, statistics of cancer obtained at, 71 Suicide, heredity and, 37, 38 , pedigree illustrating, 38 Sweet peas, see under Peas (sweet) Syphilis, decrease in virulence in Portugal, 53 , epidemic severity of upon introduction to Greenland, 53 , hereditary [congenital, inherited], absence of visible signs in general paralytics due to neutralization of virus by antibodies, 36 , connexion with juvenile general paralysis, 35, 36 , due to direct transmission of Spirochceta pallida, 48 , unconnected with true heredity, 16 Tabby cats, see Cats Taylor, Jeremy, on heredity of epilepsy, quoted, 21 Thomsen’s disease, see Myotonia congenita Toxins, insanity due to, 32, 33 , endogenous, nervous system affected by, 17 Tremors, heredity occasional in, 20 Tropical climates, little resistance shown by English contracting tuberculosis in, 53 Trudeau, experiments proving influence of environment on tuberculosis quoted, 47 Tubercle bacillus, direct transmission cause of congenital cases of tuberculosis, 48 , infection of cattle with measured quantities to prove natural powers of resistance, 83, 84 , transmission from parent to child in utero, rare, 45 Tuberculosis, arrest of process and spontaneous healing attested by post-mortem records, 49, 50 at birth, clinical evidence of, small, 45 5 bovine, devastation of Chartley herd of wild cattle by, due to probable contact with domesticated herd, 83 , family predisposition to, non-existent, 83