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spring, of which 15 grew up and are known, and of these 9 

 were normal, i epileptic, 4 feeble-minded and i neurotic. Here, 

 apparently " insanity " and f eeble-mindedness are not due to the 

 same missing factors and so some normal children result. 



Fig. 14. The central mating is of a feeble-minded mother (of feeble- 

 minded ancestry) with an alcoholic father (who has insane and feeble- 

 minded relatives). The product is two children, one epileptic and one 

 feeble-minded and alcoholic. Case 1319. 



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Fig. 15. The central mating is that of a feeble-minded and alcoholic 

 woman to an alcoholic father about whose " blood " nothing more is 

 known. There were eight children, four of whom were still-born, one 

 died at ten years, two are epileptic and one is normal, but he has a 

 feeble-minded daughter. Case 3189. 



Table II comprises 21 fraternities derived from parents of 

 whom one has defective mentality while the other is "alcoholic" 

 (Fig. 10, II, 12). Alcoholic here means "addicted to drink," 

 " a heavy drinker," usually a sot. In this table are 8 matings of 



