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exhibit such inborn instability than when this parental deficiency 

 is not present, in consequence of the injury to the germinal 

 matter from which the said offspring was developed. That is, if 

 the lesion does not produce the more organic changes which are 

 seen in idiocy and epilepsy. 



XII. That this proneness to instability will take the form of 

 inebriety in the offspring does not follow, as the use of alcohol 

 has to be acquired. But should that form of animal gratification 

 outbalance others, inebriety is liable to reappear. 



W. Henry Kesteven. 



