A London doctor writes an article for The Standard on the genealogy of disease, especially as related to intermarriage, in which he asserts that if cancer and consumption wed, there is scarcely a hops for the offspring's escape from early death, or lifelong misery from cancer, lupus, consumption, tuberculosis of the brain, epilepsy, diabetes from nervous injury, or some viritation or combination of all three, and that the intermarriage of rheumatism and consumption is productive of hydro-' pephalus and diseases of the bony framework of the body, such as the hipjoint disease so common among weakly childien. Consanguinity; therefore", viewed in this relation, is to be regarded as intensifying the risks of transmitting certain maladies, such as those referred to—thi8 s however, only because there is a chance of near relatives, such as cousins, being tainted with the same family trouble.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4685, 12 January 1884, Page 2
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141Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4685, 12 January 1884, Page 2
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