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Heredity and Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

T. E. K. Stansfield*
Affiliation:
London County Asylum, Bexley

Extract

The subject of heredity in relation to the mental evolution of the race and to mental disease is of such supreme importance that I plead no excuse for making it the subject of my paper. It is a subject which has not in the past received that amount of attention from us as alienists which its momentous-ness demands. But the work of Galton, the revivified monumental experiments of Mendel, and the investigations of the school of biometricians, headed by Karl Pearson, have latterly given a great impetus to this line of study.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1911 

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