Iran Hippocrate
and Avicenna
Hippocrates also believes in inherited
body characteristics as seen in the following passage taken
from 'On air, water and places':
14. If, then, children with bald
heads are born to parents with bald heads; and children with blue
eyes to parents who have blue eyes; and if the squinting children also
have parents with squint
in the most part; and if the same may be said of other forms of the body,
what is to prevent it
from happening that a child with a long head should be produced by a parent
having a long
head? |