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of Ceni’s (10) alcoholized fowls developed normally under ordi- 
nary conditions in comparison to 77 per cent of the controls. 
A fluctuating temperature at the beginning of incubation pre- 
vented all alcoholic eggs from developing perfectly while 27 per 
cent of the control eggs were normal. 
Todde (55) alcoholized 15 roosters from two to four months and 
concluded that alcohol causes a torpidity of the testicles, acting 
probably through its affinity for the central nervous system. Ber- 
tholet (5) found in 37 out of 39 cases of aleoholism in men more or 
less of an atrophy of the testicles. Ceni’s (10) three alcoholized 
hens laid less than half the average number of eggs, but since 
fowls are abnormally developed in this respect we might antici- 
pate that anything which injured their general health would 
disturb the laying function without drawing the conclusion that 
in other animals alcohol would promote sterility. Laitinen (31 
and 33) found that aleoholized rabbits and guinea pigs had more 
young than the controls. The investigations of the EKugenics 
Laboratory (4, 18 and 43) and of Laitinen (33) demonstrate that 
more children are born to alcoholic than to sober parents. 
As to the effect of aleohol on human offspring, Demme (16) 
compared 10 non-alcoholic with 10 alcoholic families and found 
that 82 per cent of the children of the former and only 17.5 per 
centof the latter were normal. Sollier (53) states that it is demon- 
strated that progeny conceived during drunkenness is doomed to 
idiocy. Morel (41) gives the history of an alcoholic family 
through four generations to final extinction, concluding that 
aleoholic intoxication produces degeneracy, depravity and idiocy. 
On the other hand Pearson, Elderton and Barrington (43, 18 
and 4) believe that their statistical data prove that extreme alco- 
holism is a result, not a cause of degeneracy and that the abnor- 
mal pedigrees are due to defective stock and not to alcohol. In 
an investigation of about four thousand school children of alco- 
holic and sober parents they could not find that parental alcohol- 
ism had any unfavorable effect on the offspring. 
