Disease and race / by Jadroo.

  • Jadroo.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Disease and race / by Jadroo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    centage of those under one year old acquire the disease with their milk. In inquiries made into the family history of thirty-five cases of tuberculosis, there seems to me a greater tendency to transmit the disease to the offspring in those cases where the mother had it, than in those in which the father suffered from it (the subsequent acquisition must not be confused with the congenital trans- mission) ; and it would seem that there is less tendency to transmit the disease, paradoxical as it may seem, where both parents had the dis- ease, but different forms of it, than in those cases in which one parent only had it. Certainly one form of syphilis in one parent, say, slight manifestations of tertiary, will act antagonistically to a different form, say, congen- ital, in the other parent; that is to say, that the children of these parents are less likely to show any manifestation of syphilis, modified or other,