Marriage and Disease: A Study of Heredity and the More Important Family DegenerationsK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1892 - 326 pàgines This discussion of the relationship of marriage to disease reflects the popular thinking regarding heredity and eugenics at the end of the 19th century. |
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Marriage and Disease: A Study of Heredity and the More Important Family ... Samuel Alexander Kenny Strahan Visualització completa - 1892 |
Marriage and Disease: A Study of Heredity and the More Important Family ... Samuel Alexander Kenny Strahan Visualització completa - 1892 |
Marriage and Disease: A Study of Heredity and the More Important Family ... Samuel Alexander Kenny Strahan Visualització completa - 1892 |
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abnormal affection ancestors animals appear asthmatic asylum attacks become begotten blood breeders cancer cause cent chorea civilised common consanguineous consanguineous marriages convulsions creature daughter deaf deaf-mutism death decay deformed degenerate condition diathesis died dipsomaniac diseased condition disorder drunkard drunkenness early Elmira Reformatory environment epilepsy epileptic evil existence fact family degeneration family history fatal father female frequently gout gouty Havelock Ellis healthy type hereditary character hereditary disease hereditary taint heredity idiocy idiot imbecile immature imperfection increase individual inherited insane instinctive criminal intermarriage less liable male marriage marry mature Maudsley melancholia mental disease moral mother Nature nervous neurotic never normal offspring pathological peculiar persons phthisis physical physiological predisposition prepotency present prisoner prove race recognised reversion rheumatic scrofulous Sir William Gull suffering suicide syphilis temperament tendency tion tissues transmitted tubercular disease unfit vitality William Aitken woman women
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Pàgina 77 - ... how much depended upon what they were then doing; — that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind; — and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost; — Had they duly weighed and considered all this...
Pàgina 250 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear. The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Pàgina 42 - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence ; the next more easy ; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either . . . the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency.
Pàgina 77 - Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius, and the very cast of his mind ; and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost ; — had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly, — I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world from that in which the reader is...
Pàgina 285 - The cranial deficiency is also associated with a real physical deterioration. Forty per cent of all the convicts are invalids, more or less ; and that percentage is largely increased in the professional thief class.
Pàgina 185 - A young man, of marked cancerous proclivity, married a woman whose parents had both died of pulmonary consumption. This married couple had a family of five children, all of whom grew up to adolescence, sustaining at their best but delicate and feeble existences. The first of these children died of...
Pàgina 94 - ... they have no greater right to carry suffering and contamination amongst the people, and throw expense upon the state, than has the person suffering from smallpox to do so by travelling in a public conveyance. As with the victim of the small-pox, it is their misfortune more than their fault, but of this society can take no notice. The unfortunate few must always suffer for the benefit of the many. It...