CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



CAUSES AND SIGNS OF PHYSICAL DETERIORATION. 



PAGB 



Modern Care for the Individual Preventive Medicine 

 Micro-organisms of Diseases and their Exter- 

 mination The Reproductive Cells as a Rule un- 

 affected by them Man has been selected by the 

 Action of the Microbes of Fever Leprosy an Ex- 

 terminator of the Unhealthy Germs of Phthisis 

 and Scrofula our Racial Friends If we stamp out 

 Infectious Diseases we perpetuate Poor Types 

 Births, Deaths, and Marriages Increase of Con- 

 stitutional Weakness Death-rate for Advanced 

 Years on the Increase Life Tables compared 

 Physical Degeneration of the Race already indi- 

 cated .... 44 68 



CHAPTER IV. 



INSANITY AND ALCOHOLISM. 



Nerve Derangements, Insanity The Importance of 

 preventing its Transmission Marriages of Insane 

 Persons Alcoholism a Habit, and Alcoholism a 

 Sign of Mental Instability Drink is a Selective, 

 Agency Parents who drink from Habit may 

 have Debilitated Offspring Preventive Measures 

 Drink among Australian Convicts Drink and 

 Prevention in America Public Habit and Con- 

 science the best Preventive The Power of the 

 Community over the Individual The Necessity 

 for replacing one Selective Agency by another 

 How it is that the Production of Children by Dis- 

 eased Parents is tolerated The Necessity for pro- 

 ducing Posterity out of our Best Types - 69 89 



