The drug habits and their treatment ; a clinical summary of some of the general facts recorded in practice / By T.D. Crothers.

  • Crothers, T. D. (Thomas Davison), 1842-1918.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The drug habits and their treatment ; a clinical summary of some of the general facts recorded in practice / By T.D. Crothers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    vals. Such cases become elemented after a time, and are noted as cranks, paranoiacs and persons with twisted brains. They belong to the eccen- tric class, and those who are uncertain, unreliable, unstable, and likely to develop into more pro- nounced forms of mental disease. A study of the causes of these different classes reveals varied and complex conditions. When the histories of a large number are carefully gathered and compiled, it is found that over sixty per cent have inherited from their parents a predisposition to seek for some relief for states of depression and ill-feeling. HEREDITY AND FORMS OF PREDISPOSITION. These causes are divided into two classes, one called direct and the other indirect. The direct heredities are those where the parents have been moderate or excessive drinkers. The indirect heredities are cases where grandparents drank or used drugs. In the first class, there is often a direct trans- mission from parent to child of the drink impulse appearing at about the same time as in the par- ent, following a uniform course, and ending in the same way. Example. One family for three generations had several sons in each branch who began to drink at puberty, and either died or became total