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THE FEEBLY INHIBITED. 



Table C. — Distribution of progeny of the various matings compared with hypothetical 



expectation — Continued . 



3. DISCUSSION OF TABLE C; THE APPARENTLY UNCONFORMABLE CASES. 



Class 1 : When both parents are liable to excited spells without 

 corresponding depressed spells, children of the same sort are expected. 

 Only one mating of this kind was available. The father was subject 

 to sprees and killed himself by drinking poison (probably, but not 

 certainly, in an excited state). The mother had acute mania, was 

 noisy, violent, and destructive. The son is very alcoholic, hypererotie, 

 and choreic — the eroticism and chorea being dominant traits. The 

 daughter is also hypererotie, restless, and subject to choreiform twitch- 

 ings. This brief history is one of prevailing dominant excitement and 

 lack of emotional control in all members. 



Class 2 : In this class of matings a person of choleric temperament is 

 mated to a person of nervous temperament. There are seven matings 

 of this sort. All but one follow the expectation of being either choleric 

 or nervous, and he is recorded as "normal." His mother was in a 

 hospital on account of "chronic mania," and the father was hyper- 

 erotie. The daughter was also an institutional case with a history of 

 excitement (with epilepsy). Of the son we have only the record that 

 he was reliable and slow. I enter him as normal with much doubt. 



Classes 3 and 4 require little comment. Class 5 is that of the mating 

 of a man of terrible temper with a good-natured woman ; of their chil- 

 dren one is quick-tempered and became violently insane and suicidal, 



