Abnormal children (nervous, mischievous, precocious, and backward) : a book for parents, teachers, and medical officers of schools / by Bernard Hollander.

  • Bernard Hollander
Date:
1916
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Credit: Abnormal children (nervous, mischievous, precocious, and backward) : a book for parents, teachers, and medical officers of schools / by Bernard Hollander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    often those who break down under excessive strain, while others who have been obviously eccentric remain always eccentric and never go beyond. It must not be forgotten that insanity is not the only result of such inherited pre¬ disposition ; nervous diseases of all kinds may be developed in the children of insane parents : epilepsy, dipsomania, criminal tendencies, idiocy, and the like. People boast that there is no insanity in their family when nearly all their offspring are the victims of some nervous com¬ plaint, some eccentricity, perversion, obsession, or mere incapacity to earn a livelihood for them¬ selves. If a member of a tainted family is to marry, it is important that he or she be in good health and marry one who is also in good health and has a good family history. If a girl is delicate and neurotic, she should not marry a very poor man; for poverty, the daily necessity of pinching and saving and denying herself the small luxuries of life, is an additional and constant anxiety* The maternal heredity is the more important, for to the mother is committed the development of the foetus. If the woman is healthy, and only the man has a bad family history, the chances of the children becoming affected are less ; but even so, the man’s per-
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