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predispositioni to brain-disease, though the particular form wlhich might appear would be altogether uncertain. Nobody doubts, however, that quasi-pathological accidents may determine in another inidividual, who inherits no such predisposition, similar forms of disease. The case is preciselv the same with regard to lung-diseases. A man may inherit from his ancestors lungs which contain within themselves the elements of weakness-organs the tissues of which are so constituted, with relation to the whole organism, that the very slightest determing causes suffice to initiate a set of changes which terminate in one or other of the forms of pulmonary phthisis. And, similarly, just as brain-disease may be acquired in the life of an individual who inherits no predis- position, so, under the stronger pressure of general and local causes, may any of the forms of phthisis manifest themselves in individuals who inherit no family predisposition to such a disease. Where is the difficulty? What occasion have we to resort to the use of the word "tubercle"? How does so much depend upon the use we make of it ? I must confess myself unable to understand what Dr. Wilson Fox means when he says: " The e

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Author

K. King

Publisher

BMJ Publishing Group; BMJ; London: BMJ Pub. Group, [2000?]- (ISSN 0959-8138)

Published

1873

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)