Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    Apres nous etr3 occupes si curieusement des moyens derendre p.is belles et meiUeures les races des animaux ou des plantes utiles et agreables apres avoir remanie cent fois celle des chevaux et des chiens: apres avoir trans- plant*, greffe, travaille de toutes les manieres, les fruits et les fleurs, corabien n'est il pas honteux de negliger totalement la race de l'homme! Cabanis. The highly interesting subject upon which you are writing is remaika- bly suited to the passing time in our country. Our aristocracy, by exclusive intermarriages among ancient families, proceed blindly to breed in contempt of deformities, of feeble intellect, or of hereditary madness, under the insti gation of pride or the love of wealth, until their race becomes extinct; while another portentous cause, that of unwholesome factories, threatens to dete- riorate the once brave manhood of Eng'and. I believe that, among mankind, as well as domesticated animals, there are physical and moral influences which may be regulated so as to improve or predispose both the corporeal and moral aptitudes; and certainly the most obvious course is that of select ing the fit progenitors of both sexes. Str A. Carlisle, in a Letter to the Author ElVl RED According to Act of Congress, hi tne /fcar 1839, by J. & H. G. Langjey. In the Clerk's Office of the District Coi r* ^ * jaoutW* District of New York.