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generally entertained by students of psychopathology, that the 

 majority of cases of migraine, chorea, paralysis, neurosis, alco- 

 holism and prostitution are associated with nervous disease or 

 nervous defect. The new fact that our study brings out is that 



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Fig. 26. The central mating of two migrainous persons. The 

 father's side shows no defect but migraine, the mother's side shows epilepsy 

 and the neurotic condition. Of the nine offspring three died very early, 

 one is epileptic and the remainder are neurotic, choreic, and neurasthenic. 

 One of the neurotic children (No. i) married a neurotic man and they 

 have two children, both neurotic. Case 4286. 



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Fig. 27. In the next to the last generation we find a migramous woman 

 (whose father's mother had senile dementia and one of whose cousins was 

 feeble-minded) married to an alcoholic unchaste man belonging to a 

 highly neuropathic family. Of the four children one is normal one 

 neurotic, one criminalistic and one epileptic, who is at the State Village. 

 This family has furnished nine inmates of institutions. Case 2029. 



these tainted, nervous conditions are often if not usually simplex 

 in the factor that makes for vigorous mentality; i. e., they arise 

 from the union of a germ cell with and one without that factor. 

 Table VI yields facts of importance concerning the progeny 

 out of matings between the " tainted " and " normals " in which 

 epilepsy occurs. There are 47 fraternities from such matings 

 (Figs. 28, 29, 30, 31). Expectation is that since epilepsy occurs 



