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INDEX. 



mutability of the neuroses, 137 ; 

 on tubercular disease and idiocy, 

 204. 



Bell, Prof., on deafmutism. 169. 



Blackmailing by quacks, 159. 



"Bleeders," 304; only ina.es, 73, 

 305 ; among the Jews, 305 ; A 

 family of, 306. 



Both parents neurotic : its effect, 

 108, no. 



Breeding, healthy children, 4 ; 

 domestic animals, 13 ; slaves, 

 13 ; "in and in," its effect, 58. 



Bright's disease, 311 ; often here- 

 ditary, 311; related to other 

 degenerations, 312; in chronic 

 alcoholism, 312 ; transmitted 

 through four generations, 312. 



Brown -S^quard on transmission of 

 acquired epilepsy, 40. 



Burton on hereditary deafmutism, 

 165. 



CANCER, 175 ; Varieties of, 176 ; 

 Increase of, 177 ; in Ireland, 

 180; in Scotland, 179; in 

 America, 180 ; its cause, 180; 

 follows injuries, 182 ; a de- 

 generation, 181 ; allied to all 

 other degenerations, 181, 184, 

 1 86 ; cause of its increase, 183 ; 

 not inoculable, 183 ; trans- 

 mitted, 185, 191 ; transmuted, 

 49, 184, 1 86 ; a cause of steril- 

 ity, 1 88 ; a disease of age, 189 ; 

 hereditary, 190. 



Cancerous diathesis, 181 ; Mar- 

 riage of those of the, 193. 



Cantlie, Mr., on degeneration of 

 Londoners, 31, 41. 



Cataract, 309 ; a hereditary de- 

 generation, 309 ; allied to other 

 degenerations, 309 ; transmitted 

 through four generations, 310. 



Causes of variation in the family 

 type, 32. 



Characters, gain fixity with age, 

 51 ; lately acquired frequently 

 lost, 5 1 ; vary in potency, 56 ; 

 degenerate, all allied, 48. 



Children of drunkard, 126; of 

 immature, 245, 248, 259; of 

 the aged, 257, 259. 



Child's inheritance, II ; child 

 marriages, 244. 



Chorea, 234 ; and rheumatism, 

 234 ; and the neurotic, 235. 



Civilisation, its effect, I. 



Clouston, Dr. T. S., on dipso- 

 mania, 116; on epilepsy, 130, 

 136 ; on deafmutism, 161 ; ou 

 tubercular disease and insanity, 

 204 ; on rheumatism and in- 

 sanity, 233 ; on early marriages, 

 243 ; on degeneration in crimi- 

 nals, 286. 



Collateral heredity, 74. 



Colour-blindness, 307 ; hereditary, 

 307 ; in disease, 307 ; Genea- 

 logical tree of, 308. 



Commissioners in Lunacy, Report 

 of, 82 ; on hereditary character 

 of insanity, 92 ; on drunken- 

 ness a cause of insanity, 126; 

 on epilepsy in the insane, 139. 



Concealment of insanity in family, 

 90. 



Consanguineous marriages, 266 ; 

 always dangerous, 278. 



Constant environment antago- 

 nistic to reversion, 62. 



Consumptive, The, described, 

 198. 



Copland, Dr., on rheumatism and 

 chorea, 234. 



Crime, among modern women, 

 223, 290 ; transmitted, 288 ; 

 related to idiocy and insanity, 



