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would seem to indicate, before the latent abnormal 

 tendencies of her stock had had time to show them- 

 selves. This woman had four daughters ; the oldest 

 died of apoplexy at the comparatively early age of 

 thirty-four, and has left one daughter ; the youngest 

 developed, when getting on in years, attacks of 

 what may have been either the petit mal or hystero- 

 epilepsy. She is married, and has been pregnant 

 eight times ; the first four pregnancies resulted in 

 live-born children, who are now aged from six to 

 nineteen years, then came two still-births, then a girl 

 who had a series of fits " when she was cutting her 

 teeth " ; and her last pregnancy again resulted in 

 a stillborn child. 



The progeny resulting from the second marriage 

 of the male ancestor of this stock now come to be 

 considered. Happily, there was but one child — a 

 woman now aged sixty-four years. At the age of 

 nineteen she developed a double rupture ; later in 

 life she began to be subject to fits ; and for the last 

 twenty years she has been afflicted with paralysis 

 agitans. She married a drunken and immoral 

 husband, who, however, rose to the position of being 

 an employer of labour in one of our manufacturing 

 towns. When nearly seventy years old he died of 

 apoplex}^, receiving posthumous eulogies from the 

 local press. 



This evilly-matched pair had no fewer than 

 eleven children, whom we must consider in detail. 

 Their oldest daughter, now aged forty-four years, as 

 a girl and young woman showed most pronounced 



