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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    although neurotic man. The result of that union was one feeble¬ minded, one normal and neurotic, and three that we do not know about. Chart XI, B, is somewhat complicated, but shows many variations. For example, one of the sons of this same woman had three children, one of whom was feeble-minded. A neurotic daughter married a feeble-minded man who had two feeble¬ minded brothers and two normal brothers. The result of this Chart XI, B. union was the child that is in our institution, two that died young, one miscarriage, and one normal man. This normal man married a normal woman and had two children, one of whom is feeble-minded. Going back to the father of our child, we find that one of his feeble-minded brothers married a woman who was spoken of as a pervert. They had two children, one of whom was a criminal and the other insane. Two other brothers were normal. One had a normal son and a normal grandson; the other has a normal son, and a grandchild that died in infancy. Going back to the third generation, we find that the grandfather was twice married. He was normal; his first wife was normal. They had four1 normal children and fourteen descendants, all normal. He married for his second wife the feeble-minded woman who was the mother of the children already referred to. She had a brother who was feeble-minded, and another brother whose mental condition is unknown, but whose child was feeble-minded. 1 Only two shown on chart.
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