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If the father has such callous skin that it reminds you of hippopotamus hide, he will produce white corpuscles that are too weak. This, in turn, influences his sperm, and his children will be weak from the beginning. So, one can say that if the father is a “hippopotamus,” it is possible for his children to be born with rickets—an English illness—for the children to be born weak and to be susceptible to tuberculosis. This is how these things are related.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Die sich abschuppende Haut ist in verschiedenen Farben zu sehen. Das rührt davon her, daß wir das Darunterliegende sehen. Unsere Haut ist eigentlich durchsichtig. Nehmen wir an, der Vater wäre ein Hornhäuter, so eine Art Nilpferd, nicht wahr, aber das ist natürlich nur ganz radikal gesprochen, und dadurch, daß die Haut härter ist, als sie sein soll, dadurch wird nach der anderen Seite stark die Knochentätigkeit beeinflußt. Aber Sie wissen aus dem, was ich neulich gesagt habe, daß von der Knochentätigkeit die Erzeugung des Blutes abhängt, daß also die weißen Blutkörperchen dadurch, daß der Mensch ein Hornhäuter ist, zu schwach erzeugt werden. Das beeinflußt den männlichen Samen, und die Kinder werden von vornherein schwach. So daß man sagen kann: ist der Vater ein «Nilpferd», dann wird unter Umständen das Kind mit einer Rachitis, mit einer Englischen Krankheit geboren, dann wird das Kind schwach und ist namentlich auch der Tuberkulose ausgesetzt. 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