ID# 335:
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

9 in decendents[sic], where attack appeared early we do not have marriage. With Huntington's chorea have much epilepsy & insanity. Paper by Dr. Rosanhoff and Miss Martin "The Offspring of the Insane". 1) Studied thoroughly the cases of the patients who had children. 2) Studied other parent of children 3) Observed the offspring & obtained biological facts. 10 families studied and 400 individuals. In all there were 61 offspring, 49 of which grew up. Of these in 10 4 families out of the 10 studied there were 16 offspring, all of whom were normal. In 4 families 11 were slightly neuropathic and 6 were normal. In other 2 families were 16 children in all, Of these one was insane. 1 was suicide, 2 were marked neuropathics and rest were normal. Dr. Banker of Harvard. Harvard has kept very complete records for a number of years of its students, [strikeout]and[end strikeout] both as to the mental & the physical makeup. Have been a number of cases where both son and parent are

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