inherited disease

There are cases of inherited disease, mental or physical, which ought to prohibit child-bearing.

He could not understand why Enoch, with no inherited disease, should be shuffled out at the age of 365 years.

Europe is saturated with narrow patriotism like a body saturated by some evil inherited disease.

How could it be just that a child should be cursed with inherited disease?

Some were scrofulous and misshapen, or suffered from various loathsome forms of inherited disease; most were ill nourished.