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her granddaughter are both affected by them, her 

 sons are perfectly free; her brothers' daughters are 

 troubled with them, as well as several female cousins 

 of different degrees of relationship ; her mother, 

 grandmother and female relations backward for seven 

 generations, were similarly affected; no female who 

 had attained her tenth year of age was without them, 

 while none of the males in the family had ever had 

 them. . . . 



" A single woman aged thirty years, the only child 

 of her parents, and suffering from phthisis in the sec- 

 ond stage, which she has inherited from her mother's 

 family, has ten sebaceous tumors on the scalp, varying 

 in size from a nutmeg to a pea, and which were first 

 observed when she was about fifteen years of age ; these 

 tumors have been common to the females of her moth- 

 er's family her mother, maternal grandmother, ma- 

 ternal great-grandmother, and maternal great-great- 

 grandmother, all had them, and so likewise have sev- 

 eral female cousins on the mother's side of the first 

 and second degrees of relationship ; all the females, 

 but none of the males in the family have suffered 

 from them." 



Mr. Sedgwick also reports a case of warts on the 

 hands of the mother during childhood (they disap- 

 peared after puberty), that were transmitted to her 

 three daughters, while her two sons were exempt. 



" In the report of hereditary malformation of the 

 hands, affecting ten generations of the same family, it 

 is stated that ' it was the women only who had the 



1 British and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review^ April, 1863, pp. 

 450, 451. 



