On Heredity in Relation to Disease the Harveian Oration for 1908 Delivered Be
On Heredity in Relation to Disease the Harveian Oration for 1908 Delivered Be
Joseph Arderne Ormerod
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The first relates to that common group of maladies known as neuroses. This group includes such affections as epilepsy, insanity, hysteria, neurasthenia, tics, alcoholism, etc. , which are characterised, so far as we know them at present, by perverted nervous action rather than by coarse structural disease. They are related together in this way, that they seem to be the expressions, varied and inter - changeable ON HEEEDITY IN RELATION TO DISEASE 35 inter se, of someone underlyingnervous defect;... we may perliaps call them tlie ill-timed or inappropriate response of a nervous system Avliicli adapts itself badly to its surroundings. This deeply-seated nervous defect, whatever its precise nature may be, is hereditary in a high degree, so that the "neuropathic family" is now notorious in medicine. One member of it may be epileptic, another insane, another eccentric and so forth, but the faulty nervous constitution is the same in all. So much we know, but there is much more that we should like to know.
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