Heredity
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Physical Effects of Heredity
242. Parents leave maladies as a legacy to their children.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:30
.
243. Many women never should have become mothers. Their
blood was filled with scrofula, transmitted to them from their parents,
and increased by their gross manner of living.—
How to Live, 37
.
244. Very many children are born with their blood tainted with
scrofula through the wrong habits of the mother in her eating and
dressing.... These fashionably dressed women cannot transmit good
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constitutions to their children.... Wasp waists may have been transmit-
ted to them from their mothers, as the result of their sinful practise of
tight lacing, and in consequence of imperfect breathing. Poor children
born of these miserable slaves of fashion have diminished vitality,
and are predisposed to disease.... The impurities retained in the sys-
tem in consequence of improper breathing are transmitted to their
offspring.—
The Health Reformer, November 1, 1871, par. 24
.
245. If the mother is deprived of an abundance of wholesome,
nutritious food, she will lack in the quantity and quality of blood.
Her circulation will be poor, and her child will lack in the very same
things.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:382
.
246. Her children were born with feeble digestive powers and
impoverished blood. From the food the mother was compelled to
receive, she could not furnish a good quality of blood, and therefore
gave birth to children filled with humors.—
Testimonies for the Church
2:378
.
247. Disease has been transmitted to your offspring, and the free
use of flesh meats has increased the difficulty. The eating of pork
has aroused and strengthened a most deadly humor that was in the
system. Your offspring are robbed of vitality before they are born.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:94
.
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