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Bin Family. (Fig. 38 I 



A Long Island family of English stock. The Father, at maturity, ! 

 the formula 280/70 inches; build 4.0 (57); very fleshy. Bis fat 

 fleshy; his mother slender. The Mother, at maturity, had the formula 

 125/69 inches; build 1.8 (26); slender. She belongs '" a slender family. 



The four offspring are all mature, 40 to 50 years: il I female, ll<> 

 inches; build 1.8 (25.5); very Blender; i2i female. 140 66 incl i s; build 22 

 (32); medium; (3) male, 160/70 inches; build 2.3 (33); medium; (4) male. 

 198/67 inches; build, at 45 years, 3.1 (44); very fleshy (at .'ill his 



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Fiu. 38. — Pedigree chart showing distribution of build in Bum family. 



build was 2.3 (33) or medium). This very fleshy man has by a wife of 

 medium build (but 3 of whose 9 sibs are fleshy) 2 daughters; one, at 18 

 years, is 121/62.5 inches; build 2.1 (31); medium; the other at 12 years, 

 is 145/62 inches; build 2.7 (38) ; fleshy; far above normal build for her age. 

 Comment. — The principal mating has produced a variable progeny, but 

 the tendency to obesity is traceable through three generations 



Cle-5 Family. 



A family of English extraction living in Ohio. The Father, a farmer, who 

 has for years been subject to stomach trouble, lias at 62 years the formula 

 140/68 inches; build 2.1 (30). He has a fleshy brother. His father, a 

 farmer, died at 86 years from ''probable cancer of ear." having the formula 

 140/64 inches; build 2.4 (34). His mother died at 80 year- of indigestion; 

 formula, 150/66 inches; build 2.4 (34). This is a family of -lender to 

 medium build. 



The Mother, who in youth was liable to asthma and throat trouble and 

 in middle age to rheumatism, underwent an operation at Is •. ■ its for 

 cancer of breast. At 25 or 30 years she began to grow fleshj 

 she has the formula 200/61 inches; build 3.8 (64). She baa 3 fleshy sibs. 

 Her father, a farmer, died at 69 years of "enlargement (probably cancer) 

 of liver"; formula, 130/69 inches; build 1.9 (27). Her mother, who had 

 12 children, and who underwent two operations for cancer on oose, dad 

 at 83 years of indigestion; formula. 130. 64 inches; build 2 2 •-' The i 

 fleshy Mother's fraternity is apparently derived from slender-medium 

 parents. But one of these had probably losl weight before her death at 

 83 years. The 4 grown children: 



