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have been twins, with, twin-brothers, both of whom 

 have, in some instances, married and had large fami- 

 lies of children." 1 



Cases are on record of renal calculi inherited from 

 the mother, 2 but as these might be attributed to intra- 

 uterine development, the following case is of interest, 

 as showing direct transmission of the disease by the 

 father : " Mr. Squire gives the case of a still-born male 

 child that he had the opportunity of examining, where 

 the calices and the pelvis of the kidneys were filled 

 with numerous uric-acid calculi, some of the size of 

 small peas ; the father had been operated on for stone, 

 and was then passing uric-acid calculi by the urethra, 

 and he was a continual sufferer from marked symp- 

 toms of the uric-acid diathesis." 3 



"Yenette relates the case of two brothers who 

 had an hereditary aversion to cheese; their mother 

 had a decided taste for cheese, but the repugnance of 

 the father was such that at only the smell of it he 

 was ready to faint." 4 



The following case was observed by Michaelis: 

 " Every one of the male posterity of a noble family 

 at Hamburg, dating back to the great-grandfather, and 

 remarkable for their military talents, was, at the age 

 of forty years, attacked with madness ; there remained 

 only a single descendant, an officer, like his fathers, 

 who was forbidden by the senate of the town to 



1 British and Foreign Medico- Cliirurgical Review, July, 1861, p. 

 148. 



2 " Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology," vol. ii., p. 336. 



8 British and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review, July, 1863, p. 

 166. 4 Ibid., p. 164. 



