Report on influence of marriages of consanguinity upon offspring / by S.M. Bemiss.

  • S. M. Bemiss
Date:
1858
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Credit: Report on influence of marriages of consanguinity upon offspring / by S.M. Bemiss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    themselves the Offspring of Kindred Parents—Continued, CHILDREN. I a:. a B ■1 tJ a d n 6 as C5 5 13 1: 4 3 8 2 2 3 to d ■< 17 —5 20 —1 —1 —6 1 7 2 18 CAUSE OP DEATH. Fever. Unknoirn. KiUed. Convulsioas. Convulsions. Tuberculosis. Unknown. Hydrocephalus 1. Convulsions 1. Cholera infantum 2. Tuberculosis 1. Unknown 1. CONDITION OF CHILDREN, KEMARKS, ETC. The survivors are all good look- ing and healthy; four of them are near-sighted ; all are mar- ried, and to parties not previ- ouBly allied to them. All those marriages have proved barren, except that of one female, who has had two husbands, and borne one daughter, wlietherby fir.«t or second husband not re ported. Survivors all healthy, and very sensible; two daughters and one son are albinos and near-sight- ed. This child is now in her twelfth year, is healthy and very much like her mother. The mother aborted once. These were the first instances of idiocy and muteism known in the history of the family. In addition to these births, there were three abortions. These children probably died of tubercular meningitis. Mother aborted once. The four mutos were also idiots and blind. Mother aborted once. Sterile, never pregnant. Mother suffered three miscar- riages. The scrofulous child died of com- bined inllucuco of the exhaus- tion from long standing coxalgia and pulmonary ])litlii»is. Two of the survivors, a Imy and a f;irl, are dwarfs, aged rcHpoctivo- y 16 and 18 ; they are the size of, and resnmblo, children of 8 and 10 years of ago. Both of tho sous arc of very di- minutive stature. Ono of llie daughters, after bearing many cliildron, died of dropsv ; the otlicr now exhibits tendency to the same disease.