...others notorious during an equally long period for every sort of wickedness, vice, and oppression. Amongst horses and cattle we find, as in the human...diseased and debilitated as to healthy and vigorous But diseases, as well as physical and mental qualities, descend from parent to children. Many of the...

...sweeping away, entire families ; scrofula, gont, gravel, and rheumatism, which, like consumption, occurs chiefly in predisposed subjects, and in the progeny...weight, general appearance, expression of countenance, flcetncss, and temper of the horse are all hereditary. Many illustrations might be given of particular...

...peculiarities of color, disposition, habit and diseases, and Here we see the great natural law, that like produces like, is as applicable to faulty and disproportioned, as to beautiful and symmetrical, to disease and debility, as to healthy and vigorous constitution, and clearly establishing the hereditary...

...are transmitted to the offspring; or, in common phraseology, are predisposing and hereditary. "Among horses and cattle, we find, as in the human subject,...of countenance, fleetness, and temper of the horse arc all hereditary. Many illustrations might be given of particular families being remarkable, during...

...are transmitted to the offspring; or. in common phraseology, are predisposing and hereditary. "Among horses and cattle, we find, as in the human subject,...several generations, for good or bad points, as for well <ii ill-formed head; for high and well-developed or for low and weak withers; for fine, strong, and...

...dispositions, virtues and vices, as well as similar tendencies to particular diseases. Among horses we find, as in the human subject, ample illustration'...debilitated as to healthy and vigorous constitution. Beside the general constitution of the parents, their special condition at the time of copulation also...

...are transmitted to the offspring; or in common phraseology, are predisposing and hereditary. "Among horses and cattle, we find, as in the human subject,...be given of particular families being remarkable, daring several generations, for good or bad points, as for well ui ill-formed head; for high and well-developed...

...peculiarities of color, disposition, habit and diseases, and here we see the great natural law, that like produces like, is as applicable to faulty and disproportioned, as to beautiful and symmetrical, to disease and debility, as to healthy and vigorous constitution, and clearly establishing the hereditary...