SLENDER X 1 LBSH1 . 



fleshy. She was very fleshy at 4 years, ami has a big appetite. The 

 fat is accumulated on abdomen, breasts, and appendages, except 

 hands and feet. The extreme obesity came on at puberty and 

 menstruation has never been regular. Epiphyses of radius and meta- 

 carpals of fingers are fused to their diaphyses. These facta indie 

 an obesity of both the dystrophic adiposo-genitalis type ami the 

 hypothyroid type. The progeny are thus 1 S, 1 M, 1 F, and 1 \ I •'. 



Arx-5 Family. 



This is a family of the north central States, of English stock. The Father, 

 an engineer, had pneumonia in youth and an attack of gravel at 45; his 



formula at 60 years is 193/0(5 inch, 

 build 3.1 (44). * His 9 brothers are all 

 one-eighth to 3 inches below a 

 stature. His father, who Buffered G 

 attacks of inflammatory rheumatism, 

 died at 59 years of enlargement of the 

 heart; formula, 135/65.5 inches; build 

 2.2 (31). His mother, who had typhoid 

 at 25 years and catarrh of stomach at 

 55, has (at 70 years) the formula 

 180/02.4 inches; build 3.3 (48). Thus 

 the Father, like his mother, is very 

 fleshy; but there is a slender Btrain in 

 the family. 



The Mother, who died of tuberculi 

 of the lungs at 40 year- alter having had 

 (3' m Wiw 5 children, had the formula 95 61 inchi - ; 



build 1.8 (25.5). One of her 4 sibs died 



Fig. 37.-Pedigree chart of Roses case. of « hardenmg of Iung8 .« ]I(r i :lt hor, 



who after attacks of pneumonia died at 07 of tuberculosis, had the formula 

 140/05 inches; build 2.3 (33). Her mother, who had active tuberculosis 

 at 43 years, with recovery, has at 73 years the formula 105 »'>"> inches; build 

 1.7 (25). Thus Mother and Mother's mother are very slender (associl 

 with tuberculosis); and there is no fleshiness in the record. There ai 

 grown children: 



1. Female, who has always been well, has at 24 years the formula 124 61 

 inches; build 2.4 (33) ; adjusted to 55 years, 140/01 inches; build 2.1 



2. Male, who has always been well, has at 22 years the formula 133 67 

 inches; build 2.1 (29) ; adjusted to 55 years, 149/08 inches; build 2 



Comment.— Thus the progeny of these parents of opposite build are into 

 mediate; in the adjusted build inclining toward fleshiness (P : hn 



Ban-2 Family. 

 A family of Dutch extraction living in northern New York I ■ 1 

 a farmer, suffered in youth from typhoid fever; in middle age from l 

 douloureux. He died at 54 years from heart failure, "blood b< 

 and watery"; formula, 225/08 inches; build 3.4 I 19). One oi his i 

 died at 40 years from tuberculosis of lungs. One ol his broth< : at 



29 years from "consumption of bowels." His father, a tanner, sufifi 

 middle age from inflammatory rheumatism, and died at 7 1 

 apoplexy. At 00 years his formula was 210 71 inches; build 2.9 I 12). II - 

 mother died at 08 years from heart failure, having at 60 > «lta 



