The American Practitioner and News, 1890

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Practitioner and News, 1890: A Bi-Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; Volume IX and X Consanguineous Marriages. Indians, from an old custom, do not marry blood relatives, consequently this, in my opinion, has noth ing to do with the causation of scrofula. But the marriage of those in each of whom tuberculosis is apparent can but bring into the world children who will sooner or later develop some form of the disease, under the law that like produces like and kindred atoms meet again. Climatic. The climate is unfavorable to the disease when the proper hygienic meas ures are adopted. It does not predispose to tuberculosis, but instead, on account of the absence of humidity and on account of the dryness of the atmosphere, favors a return to health. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.