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these moral monstrosilies one does uot find any physical modification, 

 or, if so, they are almost imperceptible. Neither is there to be found 

 any i)hysical brand of hereditary or ancestral degeneracy. But a 

 scrutiny of their })athologic life will rev^eal that from their infancy they 

 have been marked by the breaking out of anomalies of character, of in- 

 stinctive perversion, by affective sentiments which show themselves in 

 numberless ways. From the very beginning of their psychic life they 

 have been subject to cerebral auomalies. The history of the infancy of 

 a degenerate adult will show the evident defective side of a mental 

 organization from its earliest years and in the case of degenerate infants 

 we know well what signification to attach to the precocious manifesta- 

 tions of a morbid heredity. 



Dr. Mangan presented several cases and showed the photographs of 

 many, many more which he said were the hereditary degenerates. 

 Curious enough the most of them were girls, mainly infants from 7 or 

 9 years old, to 12 and 14. Their conduct as depicted by him was most 

 vile and abominable. It was unnecessarily and unprofitably wicked. 

 Only a few can be given as samples of the best, the worst can uot be 

 jjresented : 



Marguerite Y., of 12 years, of good physique, and without any apparent 

 mark of physical degeneration, rather good looking, intelligent, but 

 full of vanity, of turbulent and variable humor, subject to violent fits of 

 anger when she broke anything, beat her mother, stole what she could 

 lay her hands upon, and excited her brother to stenl. She would bite 

 her little brother without motive and without cause, would take a pin 

 within her mouth and then invite him to kiss her that she might wound 

 him. Her memory was fairly good, but it was sexual troubles which 

 dominated her. - - - 



Emile M. would laugh and cry easily and without reason. She had 

 frequent and violent bursts of temper, stole upou every occasion, stole 

 the money from the pockets of her father, took whatever lay about of 

 personal property, would hide in the ashes and cinders the bread, sugar, 

 etc., destroyed the tools aud merchandise in her father's shop, declaring 

 she would like to ruin him 5 she tried to poison him, and on her starting 

 for school in a gay and laughing manner, left a cup of coffee for her 

 father in which she had deposited phosphorus. She tried to kill her 

 twin brother, declaring she would like to kill herself. Then followed 

 the sexual troubles. - - - 



Louise C, 9 years old, was the daughter of an iusaue father. She 

 lived in a state of continual excitement. Her intelligence was debili- 

 tated, the evil instincts were highly developed, but nevertheless there 

 was no evidence of malformation, no physical stigma. She was inca- 

 pable of attention, turbulent, was discharged from several schools. The 

 tendency to steal manifested itself at the age of 3 years, aud she in- 

 dulged it upou every occasion and against the property of every per- 

 son. At 5 years she was arrested after a most violent resistance. She 



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