v" Mental Disease and Defect 35 



TABLE IX. HEREDITY 



Alcoholism in parents 13 



Tuberculosis in parents 6 



Tuberculosis in relatives 4 



Insanity in relatives 4 



Epilepsy in relatives 3 



Syphilis in parents 3 



Nervous disorders in parents 3 



Epilepsy in parents 2 



Insanity in parents 2 



Tuberculosis in brothers or sisters 1 



Insanity in brothers or sisters 1 



Epilepsy in brothers or sisters 1 



Nervous disorders in relatives 1 



Suicide of father 1 



Total 45 



Alfred S., now thirty-eight years old and afflicted with epi- 

 lepsy since thirteen or fourteen, gives an interesting family his- 

 tory. Altho his father, mother, 2 brothers, and 3 sisters are 

 reported free from defect, his mother's family shows ancestral 

 epilepsy and his father's family shows ancestral insanity and 

 tuberculosis. Alfred is married and has one daughter, mental 

 condition unknown. He is said to drink heavily. 



Patients or their families often tell of the supposed cause of 

 their epilepsy, outside of hereditary factors. Many times they 

 may give the true cause, but often what seems to be the cause 

 and result may be only a sequence of events. Table X gives a 

 list of causes given. 



TABLE X. CAUSES AS GIVEN BY PATIENT OR HIS FAMILY 



Spinal meningitis 4 



Injury 4 



Scarlet fever 2 



Paralysis 2 



Typhoid fever 1 



Typhoid pneumonia 1 



Whooping cough 1 



Brain tumor 1 



Total 16 



Disorders accompanying epilepsy as given on the records of 

 these patients are shown in Table XI, 



