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scribed as being easily excited and of nervous temperament, but 

 none had convulsions or epilepsy. 



Finally in Chart IV we have an instance of the union of an 

 epileptic subject, of a family tainted with epilepsy, with a mate 

 who suffered from recurrent attacks of depression with insomnia ; 

 this mating may be represented by the following formula: 



rrxRRooRr. 



CHART IV. F. M. S. CASE NO. 8432. 



ij ^^^^.if^ a [t] (j] [t] 



1. Alcoholic, died from acute alcoholism. 



2. Had feeble-minded, queer, insane daughter. 



3. " Money mad," very cruel, very miserly though wealthy, left much of his money to 



housekeeper. 



4. Daughter had fainting spells. 



5. Has feeble-minded, queer son. 



6. Fainting spells. 



7. Recurrent attacks of depression. 



8. 22 years old. 



9. Recurrent attacks of depression, several suicidal attempts, in State hospital. 



10. Manic-depressive insanity. In State hospital. 



11. Attack of depression with suicidal tendency; recovery after three months. 



12. 20 years old. 



13. 15 years old. 



In Other words, all the offspring from such a mating should be 

 neuropathic, suffering from a recoverable psychosis, but not from 

 fainting spells or any other epileptic manifestation. The chart 

 shows that of the seven offspring which resulted one died in 

 childhood, three were normal being between fifteen and twenty- 

 two years old, — probably below the age of incidence, — and the 

 remaining three suffered from recoverable psychoses, but not 

 from epilepsy. a 



It is probable that there are many degrees of recessi^^ness, but 

 there is a great deal of evidence to show that degrees of recessive- 

 ness do not account for all varieties of clinical neuropathic mani- 

 festations. 



§ 5. Neuropathic Equivalents. 



In studying any neuropathic defect one must bear in mind that 

 its clinical manifestations will vary with the personality of the 

 subject and with conditions of environment. It is indeed a 



