The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-08
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Prevention of Insanity One OF the
most important factors in the etlology
of the disease, he said, is heredity. olr
BENJAMIN Ward Richardson has maze
the assertion that insanity Is Trans
mitted through the male line, but the
speaker held that the reverse is the
case, the faint passing through the Ie-
male line rather than the male. he
did not, however, insist so strongly Oh
this point, holding that the safest RUE
was that no one, man or woman, VINO
had had an attack of insanity should
marry,-Exchange,
We have been a close student as wei
AS observer of the mysterious power OF
heredity, and the longer we live ana
the ripper our experience, the more
firmly are we confirmed in the opinion
that it is the most powerful factor IN
the world in operation. not only IN
transmission of disease, but in making,
or marring, the character of people for
good or evil. This is one OF the FAR
reaching evidences of the inscrutaole
wisdom of the Creator, without when
there could be no improvement. II
''like did not beget like" all would De
left to chance, and the cohesiVeness OF
all Nature would be destroyed and an
indescribable chaos prevail: The prin-
ciple is convincingly Illustrated and
thoroughly exemplifed, to the plain.
unscientific people. in everyday expert
ences in their pursuits. The farmer
knows with unerring certainty that
when he plants seed from pure speckleo
peas he will reap the same kind OF
fruit, and Sc on through the long course
of his products. He knows also that
Just so long as he keeps his seed pure
he will have the same kind to the end
of time. He knows furthermore that
if he plants au inferior kind mixed
with his pure seed, he will contaminate
them. The stock breeder knows that
his thoroughbred racer will reproduce
progeny of speed going animals. This
is evidenced by the long line of Arabian
pure bred horses that have been the
wonder and admiration of mankind for
ages These evidences, by going into
details, could be piled up So as to be
utterly irrefragible, but the cited facts
are enough for the lower phases of ami
mated nature. When we come to con-
slider man we will see the same rule to
very great extent true, and where
there is any uncertainty it is due to
the fact that man has never been bred
to pure type, or standard, as to special
traits, or mentality. The very fact
however that each species or race of
men invariably reproduce their own
kind where miscegenaton is prevented,
proves beyond all question the power
of heredity. If all this be true which
no sane man can doubt, then If the
parent or parents be possessed of any
infirmity of body or character is it not
reasonable to look for it to be per.
petuated in their offspring. The only
c,nservator that acts to holG mankind
M to fair standard, is that'one parent
may be pure in blood, and character;
and that like wild animals the weekly
and infirm die out in greater number
than those free from faint. Prince
Bismark incurred the everlasting Ill
will of the house of Queen Victoria
and all her line, for all time to come by
calling them the "Scrofulous Guelphs'
when he for State reasons objected t.
the marriage of the Queens daughter
to Frederick III, of Germany. She il
the present dowager Emperess ant
mother of the young ruler William |
who has inherited physical infrmities
His paternal grandmother, wife of tn
old Kaiser William, was grand-daugh
ter of Paul of Russia, the most dis
eased man of his time. Frederick III
her son died of cancer of the tongue.
CretinisIn is species of congenlta
insanity in certain mountainous dis
tricts of Europe, and occasionally ii
fat countries. In the island of Nieder
werth below Coblentz, out of $50 in
habitants 131 on Critins. There is n
dou bt but what Insanity, Consumption
Scrofula, rheumatism, Gout and Syp
hills, which is gradually supping tn
vitality of the human race, are here
ditary. There is but our hopeful out
look, and that is, that the attenuatet
virus of all these destructive agencie
are being weakened by their frequent
ly and long-repeated transmission
aside from the blow given them b.
the medical progress of the world