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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 cleft-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, anormalson. 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. 
