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100 HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION OP QUALITIES...
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and the children great vital by power means had of which been transmitted the family comes from to the be parents regarded to
as parlance If they of a were Ci to long term , all -lived , gout children , sort scrofula . " born , Neither and of parents insanity is it so hereditary altogether afflicted would diseases correct be .
would born mad be , more g , _-outy accurate , & c ., and to this that we the know scrofulous is not the or strumous case . It
diathesis , the gouty diathesis say , and the predisposition to brain an disease exciting are hereditary cause is . required The _j _^ , to _edisposition develope these being maladies present , , onl but y
for every effect there must be a cause visible or invisible , and cerning all One occurs peculiarity which in obedience we about have gout to onl fixed y is our that and own it unchangeable seems ignorance more to laws subj dep , ect lore con to - .
constant ancestral tendency influence to than skip almost one generatio any other n and comp reappear laint , and in has the a
next with undiminished force . been From used Shakespear to heihten e downwards and intensif , the dramatic subject of effect insanit . In y has the y
g present prominentl day , on numerous the same thing fictions ' and have the theme been lias written been handled
bearingwith various y degrees of wisdom , and foolishness . Without entering into discussion of the different inions thus put
forth being , * more we may certainl any remark y hereditary , that everywhere than any insanity other op disease is regarded , probab as ly
owing gout , we to this have fact a , most that we accurate know knowled tolerabl to ge y we of ] l what it what inferior creates causes
scrofula , to a degree which enables us produce on the animals exact at causes will , under which certain result in well insanity -ascertained weas conditions yetonly — guess but \
, , al at together , so that eradicating while the probabilities the gouty or in scrofulous favour of diathesis changing by , or a \ \
, great succession , we are of judicious left almost and in well the -assorted dark as to marr the iages mean are s of very de- \ j kind
s troy ing the taint of madness which is thus invested with a \ It of mystery must be that born will e in hardl mind y be that cleared extensive away in this brain generation -disease of . j j very
the different simp necessary las kinds one result may of , the , and and often the rational does exist toms course , without of is brain to madness view -diseas insanity e being the _N J ;
inference y being that the many malad symp y and the tendency to it may , be f ao _worked loes effort obey out is with m like ade fatal any to precision counteract other thing the . its law That course of uncontrolled hereditary , the taint transmission , of and madness | where J I
XLUst be t conceded examle , . of Out which of history twenty- furnishes five lineal us and with collateral one very J 1
lescendants pregnan of p the insane Joan or Johanna , of Spain , eleven I II
100 Hereditary Transmission Op Qualities...
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/28/
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