Alcoholism and Heredity

Heredity and Alcoholism in the Medical Sphere: The Netherlands, 1850–1900

The diversity of opinions around alcohol use and its connections to heredity in the nineteenth century are well illustrated by the two quotations above. By 1900 it was generally accepted that chronic alcoholism could be inherited or transmitted to descendants as morbid nervous predisposition. Together with tuberculosis and syphilis, alcoholism was regarded as a major cause of degeneration and a...

Marriage and Heredity

Mydriasis and heredity.

Routine ophthalmoscopy and fundoscopy of 673 individuals revealed 42 whose irides failed to dilate to a clinically useful degree within 25 to 30 min after the administration of drops of 1% mydracil. These individuals occurred with different frequency among the Aymara, Mestizo, and non-Aymara groups which made up the sample of examinees. The phenomenon was most common among the Aymara, less comm...

Heredity and Mental Diseases

Lecture, on heredity in relation to mental disease and mental deficiency by Sir Frederick Mott, and also the obituary notice of the distinguished author. The lecture is an important contribution to the problem of insanity and mental deficiency. Sir Frederick opened his lecture by asking whether the increase in the number of registered cases of insanity is due to a raising of the standard of men...

Blood Groups and Heredity

that go to make the differ eSj such a and another, as very feVyT ( . digital m genital cataract, alkaptonu i'ur of the irl ' Nation, and probably the c.. lines. stated to run upon Mendelian .g dlfficUlt The subject of human her^ ̂ is, &t a and hence investigation R?tly anothe ?aiV8 speed. Only very character has been added t n and H11. blood group factor. Von Dung'er ̂ agglutinins ^ld have conclu...