The intermarriage of relations / by Nathan Allen.

  • Allen, Nathan, 1813-1889.
Date:
1869
    '7'? THE INTERMARRIAGE OF RELATIONS. BY HATH AH ALLEH, M. D. [FROM THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, FOR APRIL, 1869.] NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 90, 92 & 94 GRAND STREET. 1869.
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    THE INTERMARRIAGE OF RELATIONS. The intermarriage of relations is a subject which has always created much interest. The natural in- stincts of man seem to shrink from the idea of any such alliances between brothers and sisters, or parents and children, and also of unions in the same degree of rela- tionship, as between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews. But when we come to the third degree, that of cousins, there does not seem to be the same natural aversion, and such marriages have become, at the pres- ent day, quite common. Some writers have consid- ered the parties entering into this union the same, whether related to each other by consanguinity or affinity—that is, by marriage. For instance, a man must not marry the sister of a deceased wife any sooner than his own sister, nor must a woman marry the brother of a deceased husband any more than her own brother. Others have taken a very different view of this last relation, and hence there have been many such maniages. Nearly all the leading religious denomina-