Address on heredity in relation to insanity, given to the members of the London County Council, at the County Hall, S.W., on June 26th, 1912 / by F.W. Mott.

  • Mott, F. W. (Frederick Walker), 1853-1926
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[1912?]
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Credit: Address on heredity in relation to insanity, given to the members of the London County Council, at the County Hall, S.W., on June 26th, 1912 / by F.W. Mott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 15.—The ending- of a degenerate stock is illustrated in this pedigree. A very distinguished man had a dissolute daughter, drunken and immoral (^figure with a cross) ; she had a daughter who behaved in a similar manner, was married twice, then became insane; by her first husband she had two children, born dead; by her second husband no issue. ^66666 (5^ Fig. 16.—This pedigree is instructive as it apparently shows the mending of a degenerate stock. The two eldest children and the youngest have probably escaped the insane inheritance, but we cannot be sure that their children may not be affected especially if either of them have married into a neuropathic stock. The tAvo sisters and lirother were admitted with primary dementia of adolescence and are never likely to recover. Both the parents were total abstainers, but it Avill be ol)served that in each case the fatlier was a drunkard and on the other side there Avas insanity. Full black circles. Insanity. Circles in quadrants. Alcoholism. Cifcle&^nuith black centre. Physically unsound. Shaded circles denote death of individual.