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While the purposes of scrofula\u2019s recategorisation were more political than medical, they resulted in this heretofore relatively obscure childhood ailment assuming a new prominence within both medical and popular discourses of the period. Scrofula became both emblem and proof of the links between sexual promiscuity, financial profligacy, and physiological degeneration, its symbolic status reinforced by the legal and moral language used to model processes of hereditary transmission. By likening the inheritance of scrofula to the inheritance of original sin\u2014or, more commonly, to the inheritance of a \u2018docked entail\u2019 or damaged estate\u2014eighteenth-century writers and artists not only made this non-inherited ailment into a sign of catastrophic hereditary decline; they also paved the way for scrofula to be identified as a disease of aristocratic vice, even though its association with crowded, unsanitary living conditions likely made it more common among the poor. By the same token, financial models of disease inheritance facilitated a bias toward paternal transmission, with scrofula often portrayed as passing, like a title or an estate, from father to son rather than from mother to daughter.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/mdh.2023.37","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,15]],"date-time":"2024-03-15T07:25:53Z","timestamp":1710487553000},"page":"1-21","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["\u2018A sad inheritance of misery\u2019: the cultural life of hereditary scrofula in eighteenth-century England"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"68","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7826-495X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Noelle D\u00fcckmann","family":"Gallagher","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,15]]},"reference":[{"volume-title":"Discourses on the Gout, a Rheumatism, and the King\u2019s Evil","year":"1726","author":"Blackmore","key":"S0025727323000376_ref24"},{"key":"S0025727323000376_ref10","first-page":"307","article-title":"\u201cLes maladies h\u00e9r\u00e9ditaires\u201d: Eighteenth-Century Disputes in France","volume":"48","author":"L\u00f3pez-Beltr\u00e1n","year":"1995","journal-title":"Revue d\u2019Histoire des Sciences"},{"key":"S0025727323000376_ref9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"142","DOI":"10.1016\/j.endeavour.2010.09.003","article-title":"Heredity, Reproduction, and Perfectibility in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789\u20131815","volume":"34","author":"Quinlan","year":"2010","journal-title":"Endeavour"},{"key":"S0025727323000376_ref12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"649","DOI":"10.1353\/bhm.2006.0141","article-title":"Inheriting Vice, Acquiring Virtue: Hereditary Disease and Moral Hygiene in Eighteenth-Century France","volume":"80","author":"Quinlan","year":"2006","journal-title":"Bulletin of the History of Medicine"},{"key":"S0025727323000376_ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"356","DOI":"10.1093\/jhmas\/XXXII.4.356","article-title":"Hereditary or Acquired Disease? 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