X.] 



DISEASE. 



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families contained between them sixty-nine children, 

 being at the rate of 7 '7 to a family. The number of 

 deaths from heart disease was 24 ; from ruptured 

 blood vessels, 2 ; from consumption and lung disease, 

 8 ; from dropsy in various forms, 3 ; from apoplexy, 

 paralysis, and epilepsy, 5 ; from suicide, 2 ; from 



CAUSES OF DEATH OF THE PAREXTS OF THOSE FRATERNITIES IN WHICH 

 HEART DISEASE PREVAILED. 



cancer, 1. There is no obvious difference between the 

 diseases of their Fathers and Mothers as shown in the 

 Table, other than the smallness of the number of cases 

 would account for. Their mid- ages at death were 

 closely the same, 70 and 72, and the ages in the two 

 groups run alike. 



1 must leave it to medical men to verify the amount 

 of truth that may be contained in what I have deduced 

 from these results concerning the distinctly superior 



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