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"'But my waist is naturally slender,' says one woman. She means that she has inherited small
lungs. Her ancestors, more or less of them, compressed their lungs in the same way that we
do, and it has become in her case a congenital deformity."(Ellen White, Health Reformer Nov.

1, 1871.)

The idea that acquired physical characteristics are passed genetically to the next generation is
nothing more than a myth. There is no scientific evidence that acquired physical characteristics
can be passed down to the next generation. It was simply a 19th century myth that has been
discarded by the modern medical community.

Ellen White taught that the disease "scrofula" could be passed from mother to child:

"Very many children are born with their blood tainted with scrofula through the wrong habits
of the mother in her eating and dressing." (Ellen White, Health Reformer, November 1, 1871.)

"Their blood was filled with scrofula, transmitted to them from their parents..."(Ellen
White, Healthful Living, p. 151)

At one time scrofula and tuberculosis were considered different diseases, but modern medical
science recognizes scrofula as merely a form of tuberculosis infection found in the lymph nodes.
In the 19th century it was supposed that tuberculosis could be passed from mother to child, but
science has since proven that notion to be false.

The Black Doctrine of Ellen G. White

18.4 Let’s Practice…

1. What book in the Bible addresses the above false doctrines?

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