Heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry H. Goddard.

  • Goddard, Henry Herbert, 1866-1957.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry H. Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The father then deserted this woman and married a fourth wife who is alcoholic and a prostitute. Of this union, however, there are no children. There is, moreover, very strong evidence that he is the father of the third child in this institution by another woman, who is also feeble-minded. Chart VIII, B. Chart VIII, B, will be understood if we note that the mother’s mother is a sister of the third wife of the much married man of Chart VIII, A. This sister married a feeble-minded man, and the result of that union was seven feeble-minded children, of whom one is a criminal and one an epileptic. Four are married. The feeble-minded epileptic woman married a normal man, who is one of a fairly good family. His mother was insane, the father died in an almshouse; however we find no mental defect. As the result of this marriage, we have seven feeble-minded children, four others that died in infancy, and there were two miscarriages. This is the fourth child of this strain that is in our institution. The fifth one referred to is a half-sister of the other girl referred to on Chart VIII, A. Chart IX (also in two parts) is another one of nature’s experiments. The father of the child in this [institution, an