A pathological and philosophical essay on hereditary diseases : with an appendix, on intermarriage, and the inheritance of the tendency to moral depravities and crimes / by Julius Henry Steinau.

  • Steinau, Julius Heinrich.
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1843
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    Diseases and sickly conditions, with reference to the teeth and the hair of the head—Canities—Sickly condition and formation of the cutis, and whatever refers to the quality of the same in general—Warts, callo- sities, and horny excrescences—Na;vi matcrni—Tumores cystici— Lipomata—Steotomata—Sarcomata, and other morbid growths—Im- petigines of the ancient physicians—Lepra—Herpes—Ichthyosis— Remarks on the adiposis and the ichthyosis cornee Alibert. §. 19. Other so-called surgical diseases—Ruptures (Hernise)—Diseases of hearing and of sight—Cophosis nervosa — Cataracta—Amaurosis, and other defects of the eyes and their surrounding parts—Remarkable instance of nictalopia which had been propagated in a family by inheritance for two hundred years. §. 20. Of the internal diseases which are generally comprehended under the name of chronic maladies—General remarks with reference to these— Defects and irregularities of the construction of the internal organs are also hereditary—Defects of the brain, the heart, and the larger vessels. §. 21. Rhachitis, scrofulosis, phthisis pulmonum—Haemorrhages—Of the terrible and dreaded hamiorrhaphilia—Epilepsia, and mental diseases. §. 22. Of diseases which are peculiar to manhood—Jaundice—Dropsy—Haemor- rhoids—Of the syphilitic dyscrasis—Helmenthiasis. §. 23. Of diseases which are peculiar to old age—Apoplexy. §. 24. Of diseases which are peculiar to the female sex—Of chronic fcetor oris— Conclusion. §. 25. Appendix. ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE INTERMARRIAGE OF RELATIONS, r. 37. ON THE HEREDITARY TENDENCY TO DEPRAVITIES AND CRIMES, p. 45.