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Bringing Up the Baby 



Nursery Guide, by Louis W. Saur, 

 M. D., Senior Attending Pediatri- 

 cian, Evanston Hospital Illustrated 

 with 11 figures. Pp. 188. Price. 

 $1.75. The C. W. Mosbv Co., St. 

 Louis, 1923. 



Of at least indirect interest to eugen- 

 ists is the problem of raising children 

 after they are born. As an aid to this, 

 "Baby Books" are of no small value. 

 Perhaps as more of them come into 

 being, that much discussed quality, in- 

 telligence will be given a survival value 

 by reason of the fact that only the ex- 

 ceptional mother will be able to un- 

 ravel the meaning of some of the 

 phrases used in them. 



The most valuable innovation in this 

 volume and one that is only inadequate- 

 ly used, is to illustrate the more com- 

 plicated phases of "bringing up the 

 baby" by means of photographs. How- 

 ever, even a beginning in this direction 



is to be commended, and we hope that 

 the idea can be extended and amplified 

 in later editions. 



The book contains very few state- 

 ments regarding heredity, but on the 

 first page of the text is one that is 

 certainly open to misinterpretation : 

 "Tuberculosis is not inherited, but is 

 acquired some time before or after 

 birth." 



As it stands, the statement is true, 

 but it is misleading in that no mention 

 is made of the important role of 

 heredity in determining whether tuber- 

 culosis will or will not be acquired. 

 Recent investigations indicate that this 

 "indirect heredity" is all-important. 

 We are all exposed to tuberculosis, but 

 those individuals who have inherited ? 

 susceptibility to the disease are much 

 more likely to fall victims to it than 

 others living under similar conditions 

 who come of resistant stock. 



Eugenics in Germany 



Privat-dozent Dr. Fritz Lenz, one 

 of the editors of the Archiv fuer Ras- 

 sen- und Gesellschaitsbiologie, has 

 been appointed Professor of Race 

 Hygiene (the German equivalent of 

 eugenics) at the University of Mu- 



nich. This is the first professorship 

 in Germany to be devoted to eugenics 

 under the name, although Heinrich 

 Poll has for some years occupied a 

 chair of "human genetics" at the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin. 



