INDEX. 



323 



dren of, 199 ; described, 201 ; 

 Treatment of children of, 213. 



Physiognomy, 280; practised by 

 man and animals, 281. 



Plato on punishment of criminals, 

 294. 



Plural births hereditary, 63. 



Precautions against syphilis, 157* 

 against cancer, 192 ; against 

 tubercular disease, 210. 



Precocious criminality, 298. 



Premature death of the unfit, 1 8, 

 61, 97, 102, 109, 125, 137, 140, 

 155, 199, 245, 248. 



Premature marriages, 243 ; chil- 

 dren of, 245, 248. 



Prepotency, 56; limits variation, 

 27 ; how gained, 57. 65 ; best 

 seen in physiological characters, 



60, 63 ; in disease, 6l ; in gout, 



6 1, 219 ; a part of evolution, 

 6 5 . 



Present asylum system increases 



insanity, 83. 



Prevention of insanity, 96. 

 Propagation of insanity, 85. 

 Proportion of population insane, 



83- 



Prostitutes, tubercular disease in, 

 208 ; are of degenerate families, 

 290 ; rank with male petty cri- 

 minal, 290. 



Punishment, of drunkards useless, 

 121 ; of drunkards unjust, 122 ; 

 useless against instinctive crime, 

 295- 



QUACKS and syphilis, 158. 

 Quain's "Dictionary of Medicine," 



214, 307,. 311. 

 Quatrefages, De, on heredity, 33. 



RACIAL type preserved by heredity, 

 n. 



Radcliffe, Dr., on chorea, 235. 



Recidivist, examples of the cri- 

 minal, 296. 



Records of syphilitic families, 151. 



Registrar- General, The, on suicide, 

 87 ; on epilepsy, 140 ; on cancer, 

 J 77 I 79> on marriage, 252, 

 256, 264. 



Relatives of the insane, 93. 



Repeated transmission fixes a 

 character, 51. 



Report of Commissioners in Lun- 

 acy, 82. 



Result of intermarriage of extreme 

 varieties, 46. 



Re version al heredity, 72. 



Reversion, its use, 44, 54 ; its 

 mode of working, 46, 54 ; in 

 gout, 62 ; prevented by bi- 

 parental taint, 108 ; to health, 

 no ; prevented by consanguin- 

 eous unions, 271. 



Reynolds, Dr. J. Russell, on her- 

 edity in epilepsy, 134, 139; on 

 the unfit, 172. 



Rheumatism, 228 ; transmutable, 

 230 ; allied to other degenera- 

 tions, 231 ; and heart-disease, 

 238. 



Ribot, on transmission of acquired 

 characters, 66 ; on deafmutism, 

 I6 3 . 



Richardson, Dr. B. W., on heredi- 

 tary disease, 22 ; on hereditary 

 cancer, 185 ; on intermarriage 

 of disease, 241. 



Robbing the unborn, 33. 



Roberts, Sir F. T., on gout, 214. 



Rossi, on hereditary crime, 288 ; 

 on parentage of crime, 291, 293. 



SAVAGE, Dr. G. H., on diabetes 



and insanity, 311. 

 Scheuerlcn on cancer bacillus, 182. 



