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ARTICLE | July 17, 1909

The Influence of Heredity on Disease, with Special Reference to Tuberculosis, Cancer and Diseases of the Nervous System.

JAMA. 1909;LIII(3):220. doi:10.1001/jama.1909.02550030062015.
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This discussion is the first held by the Royal Society of Medicine in accordance with its intention to hold from time to time, in addition to the meetings of its sections, meetings of the society as a whole to discuss questions of general medical interest. In view of the importance of determining exactly, if possible, the influence of heredity as an etiologic factor in disease, it was thought proper to publish as a separate volume the discussion of this subject at four different meetings in the latter part of 1908. While the discussion does not settle the question, yet the Royal Society may well be congratulated on the outcome of the attempt, because the discussion as presented in the volume before us unquestionably is the most weighty contribution to the great problem of heredity and disease since the introduction of the modern methods of study of inheritance in general.

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