Prince Moritz of Zeitz was afflicted with nephritis ; she was 

 delivered of a daughter, who, from the moment of her birth, 

 suffered very great pains, especially when passing water. 

 The child lived only three weeks. At the post-mortem 

 examination there was found in the bladder a stone as large 

 as the stone of a peach (instar mail Persici). Gaubius, as 

 alluded to by Steinau, assisted at a lithotomy performed on 

 a boy of ten years of age, whose father had, twenty-five years 

 before, undergone the same operation. The father, upon 

 seeing the stone taken from his son, assured them that it was 

 quite like that taken from himself. Gaubius compared 

 them ; and found they were indeed like each other in every 

 respect, except in size, the father's being somewhat larger 

 than that of his son. There is also the well-known case of 

 the Perigordian philosopher, dear, quaint old Montaigne, who 

 suffered severely from stone in the bladder, which he had 

 inherited from his father. Stahl also assures us that he 

 never saw a person suffer from lithiasis, whose father or 

 some other near relation had not been afflicted with this same 

 complaint, or with gout. 1 



The different maladies peculiar to women, according to 

 the opinion of the most skilful observers, frequently occur 

 hereditarily, or are transmitted as a predisposition to the 

 same. Nothing is of more frequent occurrence, says 

 Stahl, than to see all the different irregularities of the 

 menses, pregnancy, puerperium, the milk, etc., that had 

 taken place in the mother, appearing also in the daughter ; 

 and every observant physician must have frequently noticed 

 this fact. The relative susceptibility of individuals to the 

 syphilitic and gonorrhceal virus to stricture, catarrhus 

 vesicse, enlarged prostate all of which involve a hereditary 

 1 Dr. Steinau. 



