Marriage and disease : a study of heredity and the more important family degenerations / S.A.K. Strahan.

Date:
1892
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Credit: Marriage and disease : a study of heredity and the more important family degenerations / S.A.K. Strahan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    called upon to interfere, except in those cases in which the drunkenness, disease, or crime is so ingrained in the nature of the individual that no amount of care or forethought could be expected to give the children what might be called “ a reasonable chance.” Among these latter would be included imbeciles, confirmed epileptics and drunkards, those who have been insane more than once, and habitual criminals, all of whom should be at once denied the right of procreation.