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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    Leprosy, extinction of in England, 13 Leucoderma, 113 Life, de novo origin of, no satisfactory evidence forthcoming for, 9 Liver, primary growths of, liability of cow to, 64 Lobule, divided, see Coloboma auris congenita Loeb, experiments in asexual reproduction, 10 London, two breeds of tabby cats in, pronounced examples of mutation, 115 London County Asylums, inquiries respecting family histories of the insane, 34, 35 Lunacy Commissioners’ annual report, 1907, percentage of hereditary insanity, 31 j statistics of no practical value, 45 McFadyean, Sir John.-—Discussion on heredity in tuberculosis, 80 Males, colour-blindness dominant in, 29 Malformations, hereditary transmission of, 99, 100 Malignant new growths contain nothing foreign to organism attacked, 65 , continuous growth possible only in other individuals of same species, 65 , relation to host only that of nutrition, 65 ; see also Cancer Malnutrition, circumstances of, increase mortality from tuberculosis, 47 Measles, epidemic severity upon introduction to Fiji Islands, 53 Melanoma, see Sarcoma (melanotic) Mendelism, accordance of errors of metabolism with, 12 , advocacy of, 108-127 , application to agriculture and cattle-breeding, 109 descent of eye-colour, 24, 25 , criticisms respecting present validity of, 55, 131 , crossing of tall with shorts peas, simplest illustration of, 22, 23, 24 , epilepsy not distributed in accordance with laws of, 44 , facts of, known to Darwin, 11 , family history of facial muscular atrophy, apparent instance of, 19 , fundamental conceptions of, 116 , illustrated by pedigrees of brachydactyly, night-blindness and other diseases, 25, 26, 110 , inheritance of abnormalities explained by, 86 , methods of, 109 , analytical and experimental, compared with biometrical massing, 126, 127 , not applicable in case of human race, 15 , mutations, physical, mental and pathological inherited in accordance with laws of, 43, 45 , principles of, applicable to colour-blindness, 29 , segregation between characters of dissimilars, 23 — , statistical data of, criticized, 131 f supported by case of albinism in negroes, 121 congenital asthma, 125, 126 crosses between Europeans and North American Red Indians, 123 eye-colour investigation, 118 results of breeding of chestnut horses, 120, 121 ) suspension of judgment respecting validity of enjoined, 133 , tests for characters of, 137 Meningitis, tuberculous, absent among insane, 37 Mental disorders, transmission under varying forms from parent to offspring, 31, 32 , see also Insanity Mercier, C. A.—Discussion on heredity in relation to insanity, 40 Meryon, Dr., family history of pseudo-hypertrophic muscular paralysis alluded to, 18 Metabolism, inborn errors of, 12 , possible cause of development of cancer, 14 , see also Albinism, Alkaptonuria, Cystinuria