INDEX. 



ABERNETHY'S receipt for the gout, 



217. 

 Abnormal fecundity hereditary, 



63. 



Acquired characters, 33 ; are trans- 

 mitted, 15, 36, 39, 40; in the 

 Jews, 52; syphilis, 145. 



Action of environment, 28 ; on 

 man, 30 ; on germ cell, 35 ; 

 understood by Jacob, 30. 



Advice as to marriage, in insanity, 

 96, 98, ill, 113; in drunken- 

 ness, 127 ; in epilepsy, 140; in 

 syphilis, 159; in deaf mutism, 

 172 ; in cancer, 193 ; in tuber- 

 cular disease, 212; in gout, 226; 

 in rheumatism, 240 ; in youth 

 and old age, 264 ; in bleeders, 

 307; in diabetes, 311. 



Age at which diabetes appears, 



3". 



Aged parents, Children of, 257, 



259- 



Aitken, Sir Wm., on family his- 

 tories, 72, 272 ; on marriage of 

 insane, 8 1 ; on cancer, 175. 



Albertatti on deaf mutism, 169. 



Alcohol in gout, 216. 



Alibert on cancer, 183. 



All degenerations related, 48. 



America, Deaf mutism in, 169 ; 

 Cancer in, 180. 



Americans, Sir Wm. Turner on, 



39; 



Ancients, their theory of epilepsy, 

 130 ; Marriage laws of, 267, 

 276. 



Ancon sheep, 276. 



Anstie, Dr., on consanguineous 

 marriages, 269. 



Appenzeller, Dr., on transmission 

 of cataract, 310. 



Aristotle on children of early mar- 

 riages, 248. 



Asthma, 301 ; hereditary, 301 ; 

 more common in males, 301 ; 

 allied to other degenerations, 

 302, 304. 



Atavism, 7 2 > Sexual, 73 ; com- 

 mon in mental and moral 

 characters, 74. 



Atrophy in civilised man, of fifth 

 toe, 38 ; of jaw, 38. 



BACHS, The, Consanguineous mar- 

 riages among, 275. 



Baillarger on gravity of parental 

 insane taint, ill. 



Barker, Dr. Fordyce, on cancer in 

 America, 180. 



Barren women often cancerous, 

 188. 



Beach, Dr. Fletcher, on drunken- 

 ness and idiocy, 123 ; on trans- 



