In this connection, rickets, the predisposition to which is inherited, takes the foremost place.
Through an energetic campaign against rickets, to which only the predisposition can be inherited.
Like other neuropathic disorders, this predispositionis frequently met with as an hereditary attribute which may be handed down from generation to generation.
In this last, as he himself remarks, we see "no trace of a predisposition to sin transmitted by inheritance from the first man to his descendants, no vestige of original sin.
The five sisters were apparently a unit in their predispositionto a religious life.
And this plan I would recommend to be adopted whenever the symptoms of predisposition mentioned above are perceived, paying great attention at the same time to regularity and choice of diet.
In some, however, such a change in the constitution takes place at puberty as destroys altogether that predisposition to this affection, which existed in early life.
It is not easy to describe this state, but the patient is very sensible of it, and every one who is subject to this affection, can easily tell when the predisposition to it exists.
This state of predisposition I have often experienced during the day, but this only happens when the disease has arrived at a very great height.
This applies particularly to those constitutional diseases where the lymphatic system and the lymph itself are degenerating through causes due to heredity, predisposition or acquisition of such conditions.
So predisposition advances with the continuity of environment, the one point at which, at least in the case of the so-called white plague, or tuberculosis, an effort against it has been made.
Man may be born with a predisposition to disease, but not with disease itself.
The predisposition for such forms of disease is very often inherited.
In cases of predisposition to disease, therefore, as well as in disease itself, according to the principles of hygiene, we must employ only the hygienic and dietetic methods of treatment.
What of those mothers who cannot nourish their own offspring, but fain would make shift with all imaginable unnatural substitutes and bring up children in whom a predisposition to disease has already been born?
Freckles indicate a certain predisposition inherent in the blood, while some forms of eczema point to the conclusion that there are diseased processes in action within the body.
Together with the predisposition to disease, the child also acquires the hereditary tendency to regeneration; and thus rational hygienic-dietetic treatment may be able to eliminate the diseases which were formerly pronounced incurable.
Weights were taken and careful examination made, the physician explaining that predisposition means defective lung capacity or deficient vitality.
Professional advice as to choice of occupation in cases where there is apparent predisposition to disease.
Predisposition in any direction will probably be shown to be caused by them, within limits.
A third theory charges it to predisposition plus the process of acclimatization.
In brief, I had a strong predispositiontoward the tissue-destructiveness of tropical light.
Probably it is true that what are known as hereditary diseases are due far more to a hereditary predisposition than to any transmission of the virus itself in any form.
One of the commonest forms of predisposition is that due to heredity.
Leprosy is indirectly influenced by insanitary surroundings, such as poverty, bad food, or deficient drainage or ventilation, for these by causing a predisposition increase the susceptibility of the individual to the disease.
While I never examined the twins, it seems from what I learned of them, that the predisposition to stammer was an inherited one, both the father and grandfather having been inveterate stammerers.
There may be two exceptions to this, however, one being the case of a child with a physical defect in the organs of speech and the other that of a child who has inherited from the parents a predisposition to stammer or stutter.
It is they who show a predispositiontoward such study.
In such cases there is a predisposition to certain diseases of the eyes; and excessive nasal excretion prevents the functioning of the olfactory organs.
Not all who would may tic; psychical predisposition in the shape of volitional enfeeblement is a sine qua non.
The accompanying case supplies conclusive evidence of the mischief wrought by weakminded parents, and of the calamitous results of hereditary predisposition and bad example combined.
However frequently and warmly the theory of the origin of chorea in a neuropathic predisposition was advocated by Charcot, the fact of its usual evolution consecutive to some toxic or infective process is no less certain.
Apart, however, from the causes we have just enumerated, and others to be noticed below, we must emphasise the fact once again that mental predisposition is a sine qua non for the development of tic.
The predisposition of the subjects of tic to mental disturbance renders the administration of ether, morphia, or cocaine in their case inadvisable.
It is certainly the fond imagination of some great worth in ourselves, that is the very immediate predisposition to the apprehension of an injury.
The predisposition to this affection is, however, incomparably less than in the case of the ox or the sheep, the difference being attributed to the greater plasticity of the horse's blood in connection with the larger quantity of fibrin.
It is this avoidance of the hereditary predisposition more than anything else that has reduced the formerly wide prevalence of this disease in the European countries generally.
In the spring and fall, when the animals are changing their coats, there is a marked predisposition to contract disease, and consequently at those periods care should be taken to prevent other exciting causes.
Since a predisposition to develop sidebones may be inherited, animals suffering from this disease should not be used for breeding purposes unless the trouble is known to have originated from an accident.
A predisposition to quarter cracks exists in contracted feet, and in those where the toe turns out or the inside quarter turns under.
In cart and other horses used to hard work, in trotters with excessive knee action, in hurdle racers and hunters, and in most cow ponies there is a predisposition to windgalls.
After recovery the animal regains its ordinary health, and there is no predispositionto a return of the disease.
Like most other tissues, a predisposition to inflammation may be induced in the sensitive laminæ by any cause which lessens their power of withstanding the work imposed on them.
The work to which a horse is put (saddle or harness, speed or draft) will influence the predispositionof an animal to inflammatory diseases.
Again, in certain fevers, we find alteration of the blood itself, rendering it less or more fluid, which interferes with its free passage through the vessels and induces a local predisposition to congestion.
The virus is carried by the blood-stream to all parts of the skeleton, but the local development of the disease appears to be influenced by a predisposition on the part of individual bones.
I had been born with no organic, chemical predisposition toward alcohol.
I instance this to show how entirely lacking from my make-up was any predisposition toward alcohol.
But, aside from these reasons, there is undoubtedly an unknown quantity calling for further investigation, which, in the absence of positive knowledge, we are content to term the predisposition of the individual patient.
A predispositionto its occurrence is created by relaxation of the uterine tissue.
Formad[70] claims that he has discovered structural peculiarities of tissue as a cause for the scrofulous habit, which he regards as synonymous with a predispositionto tuberculosis.
Different plans of treatment have at various times been charged with increasing the predisposition to relapses.
There is no good reason to believe that sex is of much importance in establishing a predisposition to measles, although the statement has been repeatedly made that males are more frequently attacked than females.
Sometimes a whole generation may be passed over, and yet the predisposition may be abundantly shown in that next following.
The precautions to be taken in individual cases in which there is a known hereditary predisposition to certain diseases will probably be indicated in the articles upon those special diseases.
Sometimes the nervous affection in diphtheria is localized in a peculiar manner; it seems as if there is a predisposition on the part of a certain nerve to become diseased.
Individual predisposition to contract the disease seems to be increased by all depressing influences, among which may be mentioned excessive bodily or mental exertion, intense and prolonged anxiety, fear, and the like.
Nearly always it is a predisposition merely that is inherited.
All observers agree that the predisposition to typhoid fever is greater in childhood and early adult life than after thirty years of age.
The predisposition existing, very great care should be taken to prevent all exciting causes.
But when to your natural conformation you add artificial pressure, the action of your lungs becomes not only enfeebled, but the unhealthy action induced tends to develop that peculiar form of disease, the predisposition to which you inherit.
The more acute the sensibility, the greater is the predisposition to insanity.
Pritchard has justly remarked, that we might also conjecture that congenital predisposition is wanting in the offspring of uncivilized races.
It has however been adopted by physicians to denote that state of predisposition to disease, in which the germ of the malady lurks, latent and unperceived by the inexperienced observer.
It appears that a peculiar predisposition renders some individuals more subject to the accidents that follow the bite of rabid animals than others.
It is certainly true that there does exist in our system a constant predisposition to eruptive affections of some kind or other.
