Heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry H. Goddard.

  • Goddard, Henry Herbert, 1866-1957.
Date:
[1911]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry H. Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the lowest line, which represents the brothers and sisters of the child in the institution, the children are indicated in order of birth—the oldest to the left. In other cases the order would be indicated, if known, by numerals placed above the horizontal line. Chart I shows the maternal grandparents feeble-minded, and they have as usual only feeble-minded offspring—two girls. One of these married a feeble-minded man whose brother was feeble-minded and a criminal, and whose sister was disgracefully alcoholic. However, a normal brother of the husband married a normal woman and had six normal children. The offspring of the feeble-minded woman and this feeble-minded man were three feeble-minded children and two others who died in infancy. An illegitimate child of this woman is feeble-minded and a criminal. Chart II. Chart II shows a combination of alcoholism and mental defect in the ancestry of the parents, resulting in alcoholism on the one side and direct feeble-mindedness with alcoholism on the other. The offspring of these two individuals are all defective —one still-born, two that died young, one miscarriage, and two feeble-minded.