Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and ResultsTalbot, Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon)
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Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results
Talbot, Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon)
Abnormalities, Human; Degeneration; Heredity, Human
[98] _Dégénérescence de l'Espèce Humaine._
[99] _St. Louis Clinical Record_, 1878-81.
[100] _Neurological Review_, vol. i., 1886.
[101] _La Famille Névropathique._
[102] _Medicine_, June, 1898.
[103] _Bulletin Medical_, 1887.
[104] _Medicine_, September, 1897.
[105] _Annales Medico-Psychologique_, March and April, 1869.
[106] _Marriage and Disease_, pp. 186-7.
[107] _Annalles Medico-Psychologiques_, S. 7, t. xvi.
[108] _Maladies Mentales_, p. 215.
[109]
"The darkness of her Oriental eye
Accorded with her Moorish origin
(Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by;
In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin).
When proud Grenada fell, and, forced to fly,
Boabdil wept; of Donna Julia's kin
Some went to Africa, some stayed in Spain,
Her great-great-grandmamma chose to remain.
"She married (I forget the pedigree)
With an Hidalgo who transmitted down
His blood less noble than such blood should be;
At such alliances his sires would frown,
In that point so precise in each degree
That they bred in and in, as might be shown,
Marrying their cousins--nay, their aunts and nieces,
Which always spoils the breed, if it increases.
"This heathenish cross restored the breed again,
Ruined its blood, but much improved its flesh;
For, from a root, the ugliest in Old Spain,
Sprung up a branch as beautiful as fresh,
The sons no more were short, the daughters plain."
[110] The origins of the prohibition of incest have lately been fully
discussed by Durkheim, _L'Année Sociologique_, 1898.
[111] _Psychological Dictionary_, "Consanguinity."
[112] _Bulletin de L'Académie de Médecine_, t. xxi. p. 746.
[113] _American Medical Bi-Weekly_, vol. xii., No. 13.
[114] _Mental Hygiene_, p. 25.
[115] _Intermarriage of Relations_, p. 40.
[116] _Edinburgh Medical Journal_, October, 1865.
[117] _Marriage of Near Kin_, p. 218.
[118] _American Journal of Insanity_, 1869-70.
[119] _Marriage and Disease_, p. 266.
[120] Cited by Ribot, _Heredity_, p. 292.
[121] Cited by Huth.
[122] _Allgemeine Zeitschrifft für Psychiatrie_, B. xxvii.
[123] _L'Encephale_, October, 1882.
[124] _Detroit Lancet_, September, 1882.
[125] _Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease_, 1883.
[126] _Australian Medical Gazette_, 1886.
[127] _Il Manicomio_, May, 1886.
[128] _Alienist and Neurologist_, January, 1887.
[129] _La Pubertà_, 1898, pp. 242-60.
[130] _Archives d'Ophthalmologie_, 1887.
[131] _Transactions International Medical Congress_, 1887, p. 264, vol. v.
[132] _Lancet_, January to March, 1883.
[133]
"For Englishmen to boast of generation
Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.
A true-born Englishman's a contradiction,
In speech an irony, in fact a fiction.
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