hereditary disease

A low origin is like an hereditary disease—it will bear no strain.

The healthiest among us is not exempt from hereditary disease.

Let none be bred from which are too old, or of feeble constitution, or the subjects of hereditary disease.

But for the last year I have had unmistakable proof that I have the hereditary disease.

But children often are born with specific disease, and there is no doubt at all about its being a hereditary disease.