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A STUDY OF HEREDITY IN INSANITY 



CHART XXVn. S. S. CASE NO. 15177. 



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1. Cross and irritable; very alcoholic, took opium. 



2. Irritable in early years of marriage, had " hysterical 



spells," ill-treated her step-children. 



3. Several children were nervous, one son insane. 



4. "Nervous" after sister's death; was too nervous to 



be interviewed or visited by anyone. 



6. Had very nervous son. 



t. One daughter had convulsions during teething, has 

 hysterics when anything exciting occtors, is al- 

 ways nervous; another daughter is very nervous. 



7. Senile deterioration for one year before death. 



8. Senile deterioration last year and a half of her life. 



9. Nervous, " especially when he had a cold or a head- 



ache." 



10. Childish, has impediment in speech, has fits said to 



be epileptic. 



11. Epileptic, in State hospital. 



12. Very nervous, easily upset, poorly balanced. 



CHART XXVm. W. S. CASE NO. 6703. 



1. Died insane in State hospital. 



2. Cousin epileptic. 



3. Nervous temperament, fidgety. 



4. Melancholy disposition, had nervous prostration. 



5. Nervous temperament, melancholy. 



6. Daughter epileptic. 



7. Insane few months before death. 



8. Epilepsy, in State hospital. 



CHART XXIX. M. J. CASE NO. 6296. 



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1. Daughter had melancholia for several years, recovered. 



2. Daughter has nervous spells, mind rambles; has been in sanitarium for several years. 



3. Daughter had manic-depressive insanity, was in State hospital, recovered. 



4. Epilepsy, in State hospital. 



5. Seems to have lost interest in life; when interviewed would say only " I know nothing 



more than sister told you." 



6. Moderately alcoholic, never settled down to anything, but roamed around all his life 



until he died of pneumonia at the age of 62 years. 



§ 6. Prevalence of the Neuropathic Taint in the 

 General Population. 



It would be very difficult, not to say impossible, to estimate 

 accurately the proportion of neuropathic subjects in the total 

 general population in any large community. 



