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Father. A liquor-dealer. 



Mother. Died of tuberculosis at 57. Sibs: i-cf , went to war and was con- 

 fined in Libby Prison; he could endure no liquor; naturally a steady man and 

 a good worker. 2 - 9 , has headaches and rheumatism. 3 - 9 , died of apoplexy 

 at 59. 4-cf , died in infancy. 5 -cf , age 59. 6- 9 , a good respectable woman 

 who had goitre. 7 - 9 , died in infancy. 8-cf , lives on farm and drinks some. 

 9~cf , a hard drinker. io-9 , had a fall when a young girl; goes from one 

 subject to another; has no judgment. 1 1 - 9 , strong and well-looking. 



Mother's father. Moderately alcoholic; died of paralysis and dropsy. 



Mother's mother. A strong, hard-working woman, who was very much 

 against liquor. (7 : 347, V 45.) 



(83) Propositus, cf , has gone off. Sometimes they do not know where he is. 

 Has separated from his wife. Sibs: i- 9 , no data. 2, died in infancy. 



Father. In piano business. 



Mother. No data. Sibs : i-cf , a farmer. 2 - 9 , died of apoplexy. 3 - 9 , 

 burned to death. 4-cf, an inventor of driven wells. 5~cf , an inventor of a 

 plow for railroad, "always just going to do great things." 6- 9 , died at 35 of 

 tuberculosis. 7-9 , died at 55. 8-cf, a clergyman, became insane. 



Mother's father. An inventor; died in a railroad accident. 



Mother's mother. A spiritual woman, much beloved. (7 : 379, VI 21.) 



(84) Propositus (patient's brother), is an alcoholic, roving sailor; his address 

 is never known. Sib: i-cf (patient), says he came to this country at 14 with 

 a man cousin of his mother; as he is an acknowledged "liar," it is difficult to 

 take his word ; he is a hopeless drunkard ; has threatened suicide ; goes roaming 

 about at night. 



Father. It is stated that the mother separated from him because of his 

 drunkenness. 



Mother. Born in England; little data; died in the United States of cancer; 

 none of her sibs stated to have been wanderers, but one brother was alcoholic. 



Mother's father. A miller in England. 



Mother's mother. Respected. (7 : 394, III i.) 



(85) Propositus, was quiet, but always of nervous temperament and for- 

 merly had nervous exhaustion ; would wander off whenever he felt like it. Is 

 seldom heard from by the family ; wanders from place to place, tramping it. 

 Sibs: i- 9 , born 1869, in Massachusetts, suffers from nervous exhaustion and 

 hypochondriasis ; has dizzy spells. 2-cf , born 1870; precocious at school; 

 became quiet, uncommunicative; at 20 began to worry about affairs at home, 

 as his father had died ; did peculiar things ; would go off into the woods and stay 

 a day at a time; for 2 years before commitment would rarely answer questions 

 nor notice his sibs ; he would go out into the yard and run round and round a 

 post this he would do 2 or j times a day. 3 - 9 , died at 16 years of tuberculosis. 

 4 cf, born 1877; worries over small things; is of average intelligence and 

 ambitious to rise in trade of shoemaker ; he goes from one company to another, 

 thus hoping to improve his standing. 5~cf , born 1879; cheerful, sociable, 

 self-sacrificing. 6-cf , born 1887, at home, domestically inclined; always very 

 ambitious, regretted that he could not get a better education ; worried about 

 not getting work ; had hallucinations and delusions of personality. 



Father. Born about 1842 ; at 19 years, in Civil War, began to drink, there- 

 after had drinking spells of from i to 2 weeks' duration, at intervals of about 

 6 months. Epileptic seizure while in war. At 40 years had another convul- 

 sion, and thereafter about once a year; in last 3 or 4 years of life 3 to 4 times 



