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.

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    capacity and physical defects appear. Statistics of the criminal and degenerate classes show a large percentage of alcoholized parents. Morel, of France, has made a table of this decline which can be stated with great certainty as showing the line of degeneration. First generation, alcoholic excesses with immoralities and degradation. Sec- ond generation, early drunkenness, manias, and general palsies, with criminality and pauperism. Third generation, sobriety, hypochondria, great feebleness and paralysis. Fourth generation, men- tal feebleness, idiocy and extinction. In the examination of a large number of cases, these direct heredities of persons in this country seem not to pass beyond the second generation. The vitality becomes exhausted and early death from acute and chronic disease follows. The general principles that obtain in these cases may be stated as follows: All children of inebri- ate parents inherit a defective vitality with feeble power of resistance and inability to adjust them- selves to the surroundings. These conditions of weakness and degeneration diminish the power of resistance to all inflammatory disease and make narcotism from alcohol fascinating because it brings with it a feeling of strength and relief from physical and mental pain. Often the higher moral faculties of the person are undeveloped, and the children of alcoholized