Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    DEDICATION. TO THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT, ESQ., F.R.S. & L.S. PRESIDENT OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, &C. &C. &C. Mv Dear Sir, One of the newly-discovered laws of nature, which are announced in this work, gives to man, for the first time, a precise rule for the guidance of inter- marriage in his own race, and for that of breeding among animals. According to that law, one parent gives to progeny the forehead and organs of sense, together with the nutritive organs contained within the trunk of the body; while the other parent gives the backhead and cerebel or organ of the will, together with the loco- motive organs composing the exterior of the trunk and the whole of the limbs. I had no sooner announced to you this law, and brought before you a family clearly exemplifying its