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INDEX. 



Sciatica, 236. 



Scientific accuracy wanting, in 

 physiognomy, 281 ; in phren- 

 ology, 282. 



Scotch Lunacy Commissioners on 

 deaf mutism, 1 66. 



Scotland, cancer in, 179. 



Scrofula, in children of senile, 

 206 ; in criminals, 207, 



Scrofulous, The, diathesis, 201 ; 

 origin of, 206. 



Scudamore, Sir C., on heredity in 

 gout, 219. 



Se*e, M., onchoreaand rheumatism, 



234- 



Selection of husbands and wives, 7. 



Self-sacrifice in woman, 128. 



Seneca on gout in Roman women, 

 223. 



Senile, melancholia hereditary, 

 105 ; marriage of the, 256, 264 ; 

 parentage, 206. 



Sexual atavism, 73. 



Shakespeare, on effect of repeated 

 acts, 42 ; on children of the im- 

 mature, 249. 



Sichard on parentage of crime, 



293- 



Silver, Dr., on diabetes, 311. 



Sheep, Southdown, 59 ; Ancon, 

 276. 



Social consanguinity, 272 ; rare 

 in Jews, 273. 



Spermatozoa, production of, 36 ; 

 convey disease, 36. 



Sterility, among the unfit, 17, 31, 

 40, 47, 49, 6 1, 1 08 ; in the in- 

 sane, 108 ; in the epileptic, 

 108 ; in the neurotic, 109, 136 ; 

 in the drunken, 125; in the 

 cancerous, 187 ; in syphilis, 



145- 



Sterne, Lawrence, on the begetting 

 of children, 77. 



Stewart, Dr., on heredity in in- 

 sanity, 100. 



St. Vitus's dance, 234. 



Suicide, Nature's remedy, 19, 87 ; 

 increase of, 87 ; in children, 

 IO2 ; transmitted, 100 ; trans- 

 mutable, 18, 49, 109, 138 ; Vol- 

 taire on, 101 ; allied to asthma, 

 302. 



Superiority of mixed races, 277. 



Sweden, drunkenness in, 124 ; 

 idiocy in, 125. 



Syphilis, 143 ; acquired, 145 ; 

 symptoms of, 146 ; hereditary, 

 149 ; effect on the degenerate, 

 148; among the poor, 154; 

 among savages, 154; its source, 

 155; legislation against, 156; 

 in a nurse, 158; and vaccina- 

 tion, 1 58 ; and marriage, 1 59 ; 

 and quacks, 158 ; Treatment of, 



158. 



Syphilitic, degeneration, 143 ; 

 poison, 144; children, 150. 



TARNOWSKY, Dr. B., on hereditary 

 syphilis, 151 ; Dr. P., on de- 

 generation in the prostitute, 

 208 ; on parentage of the pros- 

 titute, 292, 293. 



Teeth becoming fewer in man, 38. 



Theory of Pangenesis, 12. 



Thomson, Bruce, 207. 



Transmission, of acquired charac- 

 ters, 37, 52 ; of epilepsy, 40, 

 135 ; of physical characters, 71 ; 

 of mental and moral characters, 

 74 ; of insanity, 92, IOO, ill; 

 of cancer, 191 ; of gout, 219, 

 221 ; of crime, 288; of haemorr- 

 hagic temperament, 306 ; of 

 colour-blindness, 308 ; of cata- 

 ract, 310; of Bright's disease, 

 312. 



