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Show At one time, pearls were worn only by men. Do we inherit arthritis ills? Relatives of patients with arthritis often go to their doctors doc-tors with rather minor complaints com-plaints because they are fearful of developing the same trouble and waint to know their chances chan-ces of becoming crippled and the doctor can be reassuring, because the inheritance of a tendency to arthritis, like that of high blood pressure, or stomach ulcers and many other prevalent diseases,, is of a low order. Nevertheless, arthritis does "run in families", some kinds more than others, exposing ex-posing apparently healthy relatives rel-atives to the omnipresent risk of its development. Heredity mechanisms in arthritis ar-thritis are perhaps best known in qout, a form of arthritis featured by exquisitely painful and swollen joints, which some-J times become chronically deformed. de-formed. Relatives often suffer from the same affliction, and even more frequently from the poorly understood biochemical ' fault which leads to increased stores of uric acid in the body, and is primarily responsible for the acute attacks of gout or gouty arthritis. The national trade-mark law dates back to 1881. It has since been revised several times. Christopher Columbus reached reach-ed Cadiz, 'Spain, in fetters on Nov. 5, 1500. L 1 |