INDEX. 



Acquired structural characters, inheri- 

 tance of, 124 

 influence of age upon, 93 

 Acquisition, every, is a natural varia- 

 tion, 140 

 "Actual" normality, meaning of, 297 

 Adaptation a work of time, 297 



personal and racial, 189 

 Age, ancestral and individual, influence 



of, on structural fixity, 84 

 Ague poison, 161 

 Ague-stricken district, a, and white 



and coloured men, 292 

 Air, importance of fresh, 100 

 Alcohol, indulgence in, 291 



and tobacco, Mr. Savory on, 301 

 Alcoholism a cause of insanity, 326 



in the fifth generation, 327 

 American race, the modern, 247 

 Ancestral age of disease is short, 95 



state, reversion to, 101 

 Animal organism, very plastic, 139 

 viewed from the corporeal side, 201 

 from the mental standpoint, 

 203 

 Anstie, Dr., on causes of neuralgia, 170 

 Ante -partem E, influence of the, upon 

 S, 129 

 more nearly identical the more 



alike are the children, 136 

 peculiarities of, 104 

 Anthropologist, a place of study for the, 



245 

 Argyll, Duke of, on "life," 15 

 "Artificial" and "natural" E, dis- 

 tinction between, 284 

 Asexual reproduction, 40 



Bacteria, malignant, how they irritate 



the tissues, 359 

 Bacterial irritation, effect of, 353 

 Bain's "Law of Relativity," 316 

 Barker, Dr. Fordyce, on maternal im- 

 pressions, 131 

 Barlow, Dr., on convulsions, 329 

 Bastian, many supposed acquired cha- 

 racters are inborn, 91, 142 

 Beale on "life," 14 

 Births, curtailment of, 261 

 Black Assizes, the, 238 

 Blendings, normal with normal, ab- 

 normal, of same kind, 83 

 characters normal, and belong to 



different tissues, 79 

 of normal with abnormal, 81 

 of unlike normal characters affect- 

 ing the same tissue, 77 

 physiological, of the same tissue, 



77 

 Brown, Creighton, 52, 253 

 Brown-Sequard's experiments^ on 



guinea-pigs, 121 

 Brain, strong, and a weak body, 153 

 Brain-worker, the E of a, 228 







Cancer, causation of, 344 



well-recognized forms of, 350 



Carcinoma, 345, 356 



Carlyle on intellect, 71 



Causation, law of, 2 



Cause, definition of, 1, 9 



Cell E, influence of the mind on, 22 

 one tissue modifies, of others, 2 



