Mental Disease and Defect 



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sociological lines. The inheritance of feeble mindedness has been 

 established as a scientific fact, but the amount of feeble-minded- 

 ness which may be expected in the family where only one parent 

 is defective, tlie relationship between epilepsy and feeble-minded- 

 ness, alcoholism and epilepsy, and other similar questions are 

 as yet unsettled. 



In this study there has been no attempt to settle any of these 

 questions, but some facts have been gathered together, some defi- 

 nite observations have been made which, it is hoped, may throw 

 a little more light upon them and lead to continued social think- 

 ing about them. 



