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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

ADAMS, Joseph (1756 – 1818)

1756 – 1818

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1814

#216.1

A treatise on the supposed hereditary properties of diseases, containing remarks on the unfounded terrors and ill-judged cautions consequent on such erroneous opinions; with notes, illustrative of the subject, particularly in madness and scrofula.

ADAMS, Joseph (1756 – 1818)

Adams was a pioneer in medical genetics. He distinguished between familial and hereditary diseases, saw that an increase in hereditary disease frequency in isolated areas could be caused by inbreeding, and suggested t…