Excerpt from On the Transmission, From Parent to Offspring, of Some Forms of Disease, and of Morbid Taints and TendenciesThe subject, however, was no more than passingly noticed. At page 301 it was stated that, besides women suffering from uterine disease, a great number of infants and children also were made the subjects of inquiry, with a view principally to ascertain the period of the first appearance, as well as the characterizing features and the mode of development of inherited specific maladies, in cases where such maladies were known to exist, or were suspected to have previously existed, in the parent.~ And, although forming a very important and interesting branch of pathological study, it was mentioned that their consideration was not intended to occupy any place in that treatise, except so far as their occasional mention might be made serviceable in elucidating the character of the affections from which they appeared to have derived their origin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.