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INDEX. 



Mixed races, 277-; in southern 

 Europe, 277 ; in Ireland, 278 ; 

 in Germany, 278. 



Modern woman, her diseases, 222; 

 crime among, 290. 



Modes of family extinction, 1 6, 19. 



Montesquieu on early marriages, 

 248. 



Moral imbecility, 285. 



Moral nature, affected by environ- 

 ment, 32 ; destroyed by drunk- 

 enness, 1 19 ; transmitted, 288. 



Morality, and early marriage, 246 ; 

 dependent on organisation, 284. 



Morel, Dr., on drunkenness, 125. 



Mortality, from epilepsy, 140; 

 from syphilis, 155 ; from can- 

 cer, 1 79 ; from tubercular dis- 

 ease, 194. 



Murderers, Parentage of, 263 ; 

 Insanity among, 293. 



Mutilations not transmitted as a 

 rule, 36. 



NATURAL, inheritance of child, II ; 

 life, 2. 



Nature obstructed, 3, 141. 



" Nature's remedy," 19. 



Necessity for legislation, re insa- 

 nity, 92; re syphilis, 156; rt 

 marriage laws, 254. 



Neuralgia and insanity, 236. 



Neuroses transmutable, 99. 



Neurotic, The, Intermarriage of, 

 97, 108, 109 ; Advice as to 

 marriage of, 96, 113 ; Family 

 histories of, 137, 138, 231 ; re- 

 lated to rheumatic, 231 ; related 

 to asthmatic, 302, 304. 



Normal t} T pe necessarily ideal, 28. 



No two individuals alike, 24. 



Norway, drunkenness and idiocy 

 in, 124. 



Nursing of syphilitic children, 157. 



OCCASIONAL debauch, Dangers of 

 an, 123. 



Offspring, of the immature, 245, 

 247, 259 ; of the aged, 257, 259. 



Old family characters, Prepotency 

 of, 65. 



Organs diseased in gouty, 224. 



Origin, of the unfit, 2, 21, 141, 

 172 ; of the idea of demoniacal 

 possession, 130; of physiog- 

 nomy, 280. 



Ova, in human ovaries, 35 ; con- 

 vey acquired characters, 36. 



PAGET, Sir James, on hereditary 

 disease, 4; on cancer, 175, 189, 

 191. 



Pangenesis, Theory of, 12. 



Parentage, Immature, 250 ; Senile, 

 256 ; of insane, 262 j of crimi- 

 nals, 262, 291, 300. 



Parents both neurotic, result, 1 08, 

 109. 



Paternal taint, Gravity of, in. 



Pathological characters, all allied, 

 48 ; all transmutable, 48. 



Percentage, of insanity heredi- 

 tary, 91, 100 ; of insanity due 

 to drunkenness, 126; of epi- 

 lepsy hereditary, 135 ; of cancer 

 hereditary, 189, 192 ; of tuber- 

 cular disease hereditary, 208 ; 

 of deaths due to tubercle, 194 ; 

 of gout hereditary, 219; of 

 rheumatism hereditary, 229 ; 

 of prostitution in degenerate 

 families, 290. 



Persons who should not marry, 94. 



Pfitzner on atrophy of little toe, 



37- 



Phrenology, 282. 



Phthisical, The, diathesis, 198; 

 precocious, 199 ; Marriage of, 

 212 ; Premature death of chil- 



