ID# 141:
 "Cold Spring Harbor: Meeting of Field Workers, June 23, 1915," notes including comments by C. Davenport, H. Laughlin, and A Rosanoff
Date:
1915
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10)
Source:
 American Philosophical Society, ERO, MSC77,SerVII,Box 1, Meeting of the Filed workers
&quote;Cold Spring Harbor: Meeting of Field Workers, June 23, 1915,&quote; notes including comments by C. Davenport, H. Laughlin, and A Rosanoff

7 we can draw conclusions, not before. I think one [crossed out: medical] need not be a physician to be a good field worker, in fact a physician would be apt to diagnose and that is what we do [ital]not[ital] want. Mr. Laughlin - Showed single machine, consisting of 8 pairs of spools, marked on both sides + or - a trait, to show the different traits possible from different combinations. With just these 8 pairs of traits 64,000 combinations were possible. 8 Dr. Murrey [?] - on Huntington's Chorea Huntington's chorea is a complex trouble - In but 1/2 of the cases studied did I find the presence of all 3 traits: lack of emotional control, lack of muscular control and mental deterioration. The lack of muscular and mental control are dominant. But little is known of the progressive nature of the disease. With each generation the attack seems to come on earlier; but difference in age at which attack seems to appear may be due to fact grandparents were selected individuals while

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