ID# 334:
Eugenics field workers meeting notes about hereditary behavior
Date:
1915
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)
Source:
American Philosophical Society, ERO, MSC77,SerVII,Box1: Field Worker Files

Eugenics field workers meeting notes about hereditary behavior

7 we can draw conclusions, not before. I think one [illegible] 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 [underline]not[end underline] want Mr. Laughlin - Showed simple machine, consisting of 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. Murray - on Huntington's Chorea Huntington's chorea is a coplex 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 & mental control are dominant. But little is known of the progressive nature of the disease. With each generation the attack seems to [strikeout]go[end strikeout] come 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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