Manual of psychiatry / by J. Rogues de Fursac ; translated and edited by A.J. Rosanoff.

  • Marie Henri Joseph Pierre Étienne Rogues de Fursac
Date:
1911
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Credit: Manual of psychiatry / by J. Rogues de Fursac ; translated and edited by A.J. Rosanoff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    will be neuropathic and half will be normal but capable of trans- mitting the neuropathic make-up to their progeny. 3. One parent being normal and of pure normal ancestry and the other parent being neuropathic, all children will be normal but capable of transmitting the neuropathic make-up to their progeny. 4. Both parents being normal, but each with the neuropathic taint from one parent, one-fourth of the children will be normal and not capable of transmitting the neuropathic make-up to their progeny, one half will be normal but capable of transmitting the neuropathic make-up, and the remaining one-fourth will be neuropathic. 5. Both parents being normal, one of pure normal ancestry and the other with the neuropathic taint from one parent, all the chil- dren will be normal, half of tfiem will be capable and half incapable of transmitting the neuropathic make-up to their progeny. 6. Both parents being normal and of pure normal ancestry, all children will be normal and not capable of transmitting the neuro- pathic make-up to their progeny. ] Degeneration, without being hereditary, may result from a pathogenic influence acting upon one of the parents at the moment of conception, or upon the mother during pregnancy. Thus endogenous or exo- genous, acute or chronic intoxications, infectious diseases, stress and violent emotions, by their action upon the parents, often become causes of degeneration. Many authors, notably Fleming' and Bouchereau2 have in- sisted on the importance of drunkenness of one of the parents at the moment of conception as a cause of de- generation. Chronic alcoholism is encountered with particular frequency in the parents of psychopaths and neuropaths; it produces all possible forms of degenera- tion, but creates more particularly a special morbid dispo- sition which Joffroy has termed the convulsive tendency. 1 Quoted by F£r6. La Famille nevropathique, p. 16. Paris, F. Alcan. 2 Bouchereau. Ann. med. psych., 1886, No. 4.
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