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The Significance of Heredity and the Neuro-insane Constitution as Important Factors in the Production of Mental Disease, with an Examination into the History of 100 Consecutive Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

G. Rutherford Jeffrey
G. Rutherford Jeffrey*
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries;, District Asylum, Ayr
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Extract

From the earliest times in the history of medicine probably no subject has been more thought about, no subject more frequently attacked, than that of heredity, and it is therefore not without a certain amount of hesitation that that all-important subject is brought into consideration in such an article as this.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 56 , Issue 233 , April 1910 , pp. 273 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 

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