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Duchenne muscular dystrophy

  • Clostridium tetani
    In muscle disease: The muscular dystrophies

    …Duchenne type, which predominately affects boys, is severe. It causes difficulty in walking at about the age of four years, loss of the ability to walk at about the age of 11, and death before the age of 20, usually because of respiratory failure or pulmonary infections. There is a…

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early theories of heredity

  • Carolus Linnaeus.
    In heredity: Prescientific conceptions of heredity

    …of the female and the male parents were very unequal; the female was thought to supply what he called the “matter” and the male the “motion.” The Institutes of Manu, composed in India between 100 and 300 ad, consider the role of the female like that of the field and…

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