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whether some other remedy can be found for the 

 evil, whether we will be driven to fall back on a 

 combination of these glaringly faulty remedies 

 adjusted to a sexual basis, or whether the field in 

 which the enemy is sowing tares will, after all, just 

 have to be left to itself. 



Explanation of Symbols Used in Pedigree of a 

 Degenerate Family. 

 The dotted line indicates illegitimate descent. 



A = apoplexy. 



B = designates the man who gave his child a live 

 cartridge to play with. 



C =died in childbirth. 



D =died of diphtheria. 



d =of drunken habits. 



E = suffered from epilepsy. 



F =had fits in infancy or childhood. 



F^= subject to fits after twenty years of age. 



G -details not known. As a matter of fact the 

 child was not yet born when this table was 

 made up. 

 H = hernia {or rupture). 



I = insane. 



i = immoral. 



K = syncopal attacks. 



L = laryngismus stridulus, 

 &c. 



M = petit Trial? 



N = neurasthenia. 



P = paralysis agitans. 



R =no details known. 



S = spina bifida. 

 T = thief. 

 U = Polydactyly. 

 V = prematurely born. 

 W = abortion. 

 Z = stillborn. 



