Davenport and Weeks: Inheritance of Epii,epsy 



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Fig. 6. This chart shows the product of a feeble-minded man and an 

 epileptic, opium-eating, unchaste woman. The father's father was feeble- 

 minded and a " criminal " and, besides the man in question, he had an 

 epileptic son, and three alcoholics, of whom one had the vagrant tendency 

 (W). The mother's germ-plasm does not show up much better, for she 

 has a feeble-minded and alcoholic brother, who lives at the almshouse, an 

 alcoholic sister who is a prostitute and a vagrant, and three alcoholic 

 nephews of whom one (C) has been in jail (4). Two children were born 

 alive to this pair 35 odd years ago. The first was feeble-minded and died 

 before she was fourteen, the second is at the State Village for Epileptics. 

 Case 2857. 



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Fig. 7. The central mating is that of a feeble-minded man (who has a 

 feeble-minded brother) and a feeble-minded and epileptic woman (who 

 has three epileptic nephews and nieces, and belongs to a fraternity of 

 neuropaths). Five children were born alive, of whom two are in an insti- 

 tution for the feeble-minded, two at the Skillman Village for Epileptics 

 and the other, a nine-year old, has defective speech. The feeble-minded 

 children are approaching an age when, upon demand of the father, they 

 may be set free on the community to continue the pedigree. Case 3052. 



