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" Of these thirty-seven individuals, therefore, descended 

 from ancestors mentally diseased, thirteen are insane and 

 twenty-four normal, but the history of some is wanting, and 

 others are still very young. 



" A review of all the facts mentioned teaches us that in- 

 sanity, regarded broadly, is a phenomenon of degeneration 

 whose determining conditions are to be sought in congenital 

 morbid dispositions transmitted to the germ in consequence 

 of hereditary pathological states of the brain in the as- 

 cendants, or in injuries of the cerebral organisation of the 

 individual incurred in the course of life. 



