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cleft palate. The third child, a daughter, had congenital squint. 

 She married a man who suffered from migraine of a periodical 

 type. The fourth child, a daughter, was normal. She married a 

 thirty-year-old active business man, in whom ataxia developed a 

 year after marriage. The fifth child, a son, was ataxic at eight- 

 een. The children of the 'Napoleon of Finance' and the society 

 woman were an imbecile son, a nymphomaniac, a hysteric, a 

 female epileptic who had a double uterus, and a son who wrote 

 verses and was a society man. The clef t-palated society man and 

 club-footed woman had triplets born dead and a squinting, 

 migrainous son who, left penniless by his parents, married his 

 cousin, the nymphomaniac daughter of the 'Napoleon of Fi- 

 nance,' after being detected in an intrigue with her. The mi- 

 grainous man and squinting daughter of the farmer stock-broker 

 had a sexually inverted masculine daughter, a daughter subject 

 to periodical bleeding at the nose irrespective of menstruation, as 

 well as chorea during childhood, a normal daughter, a deaf-mute 

 phthisical son, a daughter with cloacal formation of the perineum, 

 an ameliac son, a cyclopian daughter (with one central eye) born 

 dead, and, finally, a normal son. The sexual invert married the 

 versifier son of the 'Napoleon of Finance.' The progeny of the 

 normal daughter of the farmer stock-broker and the ataxic hus- 

 band were a dead-born, sarcomatous son, a gouty son, twin boys 

 paralyzed in infancy, twin girls normal, a normal son, and a son 

 ataxic at fourteen. The progeny of the nymphomaniac daughter 

 and her strabismic, migrainous cousin were a ne'er-do-well, a 

 periodical lunatic, a dipsomaniac daughter who died of cancer of 

 the stomach, deformed triplets who died at birth, an epileptic 

 imbecile son, a hermaphrodite, a prostitute, a double monster 

 born dead, a normal daughter and a paranoiac son." 



Aside from the evidences of luetic infection in some branches 

 of this unfortunate family, there is a combination of traits, some 

 of which, as bleeding and color blindness, are commonly trans- 

 mitted as so-called "unit characters," while others are sympto- 

 matic of defective tendencies which might find expression in a 

 multitude of forms. 



