The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1888-03-15

tivoglio all possessed tumor, which |
used to swell when damp wi ID blew,
and this strange pecu.iarity was tram
mltted from father To son. The fire. |
queucy among the Romans Of sur
names indicating some physical pecu-
liarlty Naso, Ltbeo, Buccu, Capitu-
would seem to show that the f,ct of
Certain types uf feature beng trans
mitted through several generations
had alreaoy been remarked. This
fact lies almost unno.lced under many
current forms o expression. We
speak of u certain type Of face being
arlstoeratic or the reverse, by which
we meun tha, physical features charac
teriziug certain classes are transmitted
80 surely as to become the recogniz d
appanage Of those classes. The aris
toeraev If Western Europe pride them
selves upon possessing and transmit
ting small hlnds, the outward and
visibls slgn OF long exemption from
IN lnual labor. THE aiistocraey oi
Cniua ptiae themselves On the Am..ll-
ness OF their feet. The implication is
in each case the same. We often
speak of blue l.loud' without any
clear idea Of the meaning of the ex-
preston. The phase probably arose
from the recognition ci the faet that
tie a. a.istoeratic and luxurious classics.
who are exempt iroia actual labor.
possess tine White sam, through
ahicb the veins SHOW themselves
clearly, aud ,hat this peeuliarlty Is
transmitted from generation to gener.
alton. 1. Is Il iaet OF history that
| Frederick William | Of Prussia sue
ceeded IN producing steck Of gigantic
srenadiels 10y hlalching his tallest sol
diers with women of s.nliac pvoPor-
lions.
No point of structure is too minute
to Afford instances # the Law Of inner.
itance. 4 little spot on The IRIS has
been transmitted Ir,,n parent II child.
The possession Of few abuorlnal.y
slong hairs IN the eyebrows haa Lern
known to cherfslerize the various
members Of certain .aIa.l'es; ani the
characteristic Of patch Of prema urely
gray hair has beea tfansniittel through
several generations. slany curious
records exlst Uf families winch pos.
sossed and glsr.ed Ia the sears. aud
other family marks. faithfully tr,ns-
mitted from parent to child IA soii
ef secret hall hissk stamped by nature
to attest tl,e geanlneness OF the liae
In the realm oil disease the facts of in
herltance are most numerous, and are
daily Accommodating. Here they are
no longer, alas, carious aud amusing,
hut terrible, iase.ul, overwhelming.
No fac, of nature is more pregnant
with awful meaning than the fact oi
the inheritance of di,ease Ii meets
the physician on his daily rounds,
paralyzng his art and filling hnn vita
sadness. The legend OF the ancient
Greeks pictured the malignant Furies
pursuing families for generation to
generation and rendering them desc
late. The fulies still ply their work
Of terror aud death; but We have
stripped them Of the garb which super
stlilon threw around them, aud they
now appear to our eyes IN Ihe more
i,fellig bic bue not less aaful form cf
hereditary disease. Modern science,
which has cast illumination into So
many dark corners of nature, has shed
a new aud still more lurId light on the
words Of the Hebrew Scripture: 'The
SINS Of the iatneiS khdIl be N1stCu
upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation.' Instances OF
hereditary disease abound on every
hand. Fully fifty per cent. Of cases
of gout are Inherited. The proportion
is not much less in that fell destroyer
Of families, our national scDurge, CON
sumption. Cancer and scrofula run
strongly in families. INSANITY is her
editary to u marked degree; but fortu-
nately. like many other hereditary
diseases, tends TO wear itself out, the
stock becoming extinct Nearly all
defects of sight are occasionally in
herited. Sir Henry Holland says that
i'no organ or texture of the body is
exempt from the chance of being the
subject of hereditary diSerse" Prob
ably most chronic diseases which per
manently modify the structure and