Browsing by Subject "Alcoholism, Hereditary aspects"
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Some facts which suggest the idea that the desire for alcoholic stimulants is not only transmitted by hereditary descent, but that it is also felt with increasing force from generation to generation, and thus strongly tends to deteriorate the human race
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1858)My object will be attained if I shall have awakened this new idea in any of your minds, so that it may lead to a further and more searching investigation of this important question. For surely it will be considered by ...