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The Presidential Address, delivered at the Sixty-first Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at Liverpool on July 24th, 1902

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. Wiglesworth
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The honourable position which your courtesy rather than any merit on my part has placed me in, carries with it the privilege of addressing you, and in offering you a few remarks on some of the problems of heredity, more especially with reference to their bearing upon insanity and allied conditions, I am fully conscious how inadequate my knowledge is to treat with satisfaction so important a theme. I venture to hope, however, that a few facts and theories bearing on this subject may not be devoid of interest, and may possibly serve as a stimulus to additional inquiries in this direction.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 48 , Issue 203 , October 1902 , pp. 611 - 645
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1902 

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