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Title: Wisconsin medical recorder
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Janesville : Hall & Thorne
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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or nostrils removed, learn tobreathe correctly, and otherwise buc-•ullv resist our inherited predispo-sitions. We can go at this business right:and, no matter what our inheritaiwe have a better chance for a long and WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 203 painless life than he who inherits thebest constitution and abuses it with lit-tle sunlight and outdoor air, poor food,poor ventilation of his air passages,poor water, and worse whisky, or badhabits generally; especially if he con-tracts pneumonia or some similar dis-ease, known to predispose its victims tothe Great White Plague. What is meant by inherited predis- This is not only true of individualsor of parts, but of organs and of cells;and it is this susceptibility of cells toinvasion by the cause of consumptionthat forms the danger to be guardedagainst; so that, just as children mayhave eves the color of their fathers, orhair the color of their mothers, orvoices so similar to either that they areindistinguishable, the one from the oth-
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Inside View of Tent used by Patients at Nordrach position is the probable transmissionof parent to offspring of a similarity oftissues; characteristic, so to speak, ofprogenitors in accord with the immut-able law of nature, for each pair to re-produce their kind; not only in form,size and functions, and in very nature,but in their reaction of environmentand their ability to withstand or to beovercome by their surroundings or bydisease influences. er, in the dark or over a phone; it isthis which stamps them as of one fleshand blood, and, presumably subject tothose diseases which carried off theirancestors. In modern life the so-called weaklungs, are kept thoroughly tilled bythe depressing influences of adulteratedfoodstuffs, poor ventilation of the aver-age dwelling, of office or workshop,and of the air passages leading to the !04 WISCONSIN MIDICAL EECOEDER lungs, ; r water, unsanitary surround-ings and too litl le of oul of-door-life.All these, together with widespreadprevalence of th

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