SIGNIFICANCE OF VARIATION IN BllU). 





deny the possibility of starving most fleshy persona thin or of incn 

 ing the weight of most adults by an excess of food, ye\ it i- also 

 obvious that two persons of the same stature and fed equal amounts 

 of similar food may come to differ enormously, due to interna] con- 

 ditions, sometimes of glandular origin and sometimes dependent upon, 

 or at least associated with, disease. 



DISEASES IN RELATION TO Bl I LI). 



As just stated, it is frequently true that build is influenced perma- 

 nently by disease. To test the influence of disease on. or association 

 of diseases with, different types of build, a tabulation was made of 

 the diseases recorded (in the Records of Family Traits. Eugenics 



Table 10— Incidence of disease in relation t» build. 



