Show I HEAL HEALTH HEALTH TH 1 a ADVICE By Dr Morris Morrs Fishbein Editor Journal of fh the American Mi Md Mical cal Association No two of us are constructed J ex cx alike The way in which w ware we weare ar are constructed is a reflection of ot the constitution which we inherit from tram all of bf f our ancestors f The special branch of science which is concerned with the origins or or- of man the kind of material from which he is constructed and the effects of such materials materia on on his life lif is shown the as science of ot genetics The human being represents a certain contribution from each of oz his parents As far as we know the nature of each parents parent's conI con eon is not definitely by any law of science It seems rather to depend almost wholly upon chance Each of the parents may con tribute certain material Yet upon these very materials depend pend not I Ionly only the individuals individual's health but I also his character his personality the powers which he will develop later in life indeed his entire future I It has been discovered that the the- number of chromosomes from the female is different from that coming com corn ing from the male In the female r the number of chromosomes is even In the male the number of at chromosomes is odd This difference differ differ- differs differ's s 's sence i ence of one chromosome is said to be responsible for determining determining- j. j many of the differences that d du- du i j male and female j The early embryo contains in a amass amass I mass of tissue two nuclei each with a set of chromosomes Ott On I r of these is from the mother tie the tb other from the father The mas grows by dividing into two par part These in turn divide into tour tot and so on into eight 16 until t i l. l large number of cells are f formed formet At first the two sexes seem to till develop exactly alike but gradually grad l i. i there begin to be differences difference sit depending upon the number of chromosomes that are present As As IIi the development occurs the individual indi vidual becomes determined to toward to 1 ward the male or the female side ide and certain glands develop which are characteristic of sex As growth continues the ma as f coming from these glands V li continues to determine quite deli deli- at the characteristics of ot the human being It is known that the I secretions do have such effects I 1 because one of the greatest discoveries discoveries dis dis- i 4 of modern medicine is the the I isolation of each of these secre secretions By injecting such seer secre secretions into animals and studying their growth it can be shown that the glands quite definitely influence mhz mhz- i tr trence ence the characteristics and the l I growth of the animal J |