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7. Male, a farmer and "shopman," who in youth Buffered from ! 

 disease, has at 53 years the formula 170 67.5 inches; build 2.1 



8. Female, who at 17 years had fever, losl her mind hat 

 since— "gradual mental deterioration." hi 51 yeai 

 170/62 inches; build 3.1 (44). 



9. Female, who in youth suffered from "thrush," and in middle life from 

 malarial fever and gradual mental deterioration, has at 51 



formula 116/57.5 inches; build 2.4 (35). 



10. Female, who at 48 years has the formula 165 63 inches; build 

 2.9 (42). 



Comment. — This is an extraordinarily valuable pedigree furnished bj 

 member of the family who has taken great pain- with the record 

 parents are of middle-fleshy build (39). The Father's fraternity b1 

 sibs: 5 medium, 4 fleshy, and 1 very fleshy. This i- associated with -• mi- 

 dwarfishness, one of the sisters being only 57 inches in Btature and <»ii 

 the brothers only 63 inches. One of tin ir pan nt% is si, i,,l< r; om obi ■• 

 Mother's fraternity comprises 4 persons of medium build and :{ Btout. Their 

 parents are both fleshy. The "children" are remarkably uniform. S 

 they all, except one, reached the parental age, no "adjustment" is n< c< jsary; 

 they can be compared directly. One is of medium build. 8 are -tout 

 their parents (including the adjusted age of the girl who died at 20), and 



1 is just over the line of being very stout ill), like her paternal aunt and 

 a little less than her Father's mother. Here the obesity ha- -kipped a 

 generation in the direct line, possibly because the Father was phenotypically 

 reduced in build, perhaps because of his advanced a<_ r <' (88). Thi- circum- 

 stance offers, however, no theoretical difficulty. The uniformity of I • 

 progeny favors the hypothesis that in this family there are only ' 

 independent factors for fleshy build (R: Jon-lln. 



Pal Family. (Fig. 25. 1 



A family living in a small town in good circumstances. Ill , a 

 farmer, who at 67 years is 173 cm. (68 inches) tall, weighs around 90 kn. 

 or 200 pounds; build 3.0 (43); fleshy; net relative chest-girth 120 

 or 71 per cent. This near-obese man was slender as a buy and b< . 

 grow fleshy at 30 years of age. There are 5 others in his fraternity: * 1 • III 

 7 $ , a physician, at 71 years is 178 cm. (70 inches! tall, weigl 

 (200 pounds); build 2.9 (41); fleshy; relative chest-girth Llfl 178 i 

 per cent. He is doubtless heterozygous for build. Bince, by a b!< rider v 

 he has 2 fleshy and 2 slender children. (2) III 8 9 . married, at 69 

 has stature 157 cm. (62 pounds); weight 75 kg. (155 pounds); build 2.8 

 (40); fleshy; relative chest-girth 107-^157, or 68 per cent. By a mai 

 medium build she has 1 fleshy, 1 medium, and A -lender children." IN 



11 6 . at 65 years has a stature of 175 cm. '<i'.> inches) : weight 61 k| 

 pounds); build 2.0 (28); slender. <4i IN 5 - . at 62 v. tun 178 



(70 inches); weight 95 kg. (210 pounds) ; build 3.0 (43) : fl< Bhy. II I la 

 tive chest-girth 117-^-178, or 66 per cent. A- a boy be was of medium 

 build; at about 30 years, like III 7, he began to grow fleshy, and is now 

 dieting for diabetes (?). By a fleshy wife, whose Bibs vary in build, 



2 fleshy children and 1 of medium' build. (5) IN 12, at 



stature of 168 cm. (66 inches) and weight of 102 leg. (224 pounds); build 

 3.6 (52); very fleshy. By a husband of medium build shi 

 and 1 medium child.* 



* Not shown in figure L'">. 



