... great causes of mortality in infancy, and of sickliness in later life. The statistics of Foundling Hospitals bear sad testimony to the fact of its dangers, andthe researches of physicians show that ... of their parents.[1] Scrofula, which is another disease closely allied toconsumption, is hereditary also; and hip disease, disease of the spine, abscesses, and enlarged glands in anymembers ... begins again, drawing up its legs to its stomach;and as the pain passes off, stretches them out again, and with many little sobs passes off into a quiet sleep. If ithas inflammation of the chest...