Author: West London Medico -Chirurgical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780483445802

Excerpt from West London Medical Journal, 1898, Vol. 3 Perhaps too little has been done in ascertaining the part inheritance or environment play in determining the varying degrees of susceptibility to infectious diseases, cancer, and gout. Take the latter. In few things has there been a more satisfactory reformation than in dining and the subsequent drinking which used to follow it. No wonder that gout was thought hereditary in every family of consequence. Beginning early, men ate to satiety and Soaked afterwards like so many sand-beds. Tables groaning under ponderous joints mangled by the guests were the survivals of the barbaric banquets of Northmen and Saxons. The haemorrhagic diathesis affords much scope for future work, for doubtless we have here to deal with a structural defect in the blood-vessels rather than in the blood itself. It is well known that the children of the affected individual Often escape. All the Children of the sons, and the female children Of the daughters also escape, but the sons of the daughters are commonly affected. This fact was shown by a genealogical tree which I assisted in constructing some time ago in respect of cases of bleeders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.