Heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry H. Goddard.

  • Goddard, Henry Herbert, 1866-1957.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry H. Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of a combination of alcoholism and mental defect in the father, when the mother’s family is good—herself and sisters being normal. The result of this woman’s marriage with a feeble¬ minded alcoholic man is five feeble-minded children, five that died in infancy, two others that died before their mental con¬ dition could be determined, and one normal child. Apparently a clear case of transmission through the father. Chart IV, also, seems to show the defect coming through the male, the^grandfather, a feeble-minded man, marrying a normal woman, the result of this marriage being two feeble-minded Chart IV. children' and two normal ones. One of these normals married a normal man. They had six normal children, one feeble-minded, one who died in infancy, and one infant still living, but condition unknown.