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
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Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
The following misprints have been corrected:
"hemipheres" corrected to "hemispheres" (page 36)
"Louisana" corrected to "Louisiana" (page 99)
"somtimes" corrected to "sometimes" (page 112)
"manifestions" corrected to "manifestations" (page 148)
"two" corrected to "too" (page 212)
"centrals" corrected to "central" (page 234)
"from" corrected to "form" (page 258)
"looses" corrected to "loses" (page 260)
"mathemacian" corrected to "mathematician" (page 297)
"cortes" corrected to "cortex" (page 313)
"Nevropathique" corrected to Névropathique (footnote 209)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and
hyphenation have been retained from the original.
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