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

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

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    Chart X shows the descendants of a feeble-minded woman who was married twice. Her first husband was normal. There were four normal children, one of whom is alcoholic. This alcoholic son married a normal woman and produced two feeble¬ minded and three normal children. This is another instance of the defect skipping a generation, being transmitted by the grandmother through the father. The second marriage of this feeble-minded woman was with an alcoholic and immoral man. The result was four feeble¬ minded children. One of these became alcoholic and syphilitic and married a feeble-minded woman. She was one of three imbecile children born of two imbecile parents. The result here could, of course, be nothing but defectives. There were two still-born, and three that died in infancy. Six others lived to be determined feeble-minded. One of these was a criminal. Two are in the institution at Vineland. The mother’s sister also has a feeble-minded son. Chart XI also brings together in its two parts (A and B) two children in the institution that were not previously known to be related. The maternal grandmother in A is the maternal grand¬ mother in B, being the grandmother of both of these children, as well as of several other defectives. The mother of our child on A was an illegitimate daughter of this woman. She was feeble-minded; she married a feeble-minded son of a feeble¬ minded man. The result was two children that died in infancy, three miscarriages, and two mental defectives. Going back to the grandmother, we find that she married, later, a normal
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