A TERRIBLE RECORD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1327, 28 August 1886, Page 3

A TERRIBLE RECORD.

Marriages entered into without due regard to physiological c nditioi a are oily too frequently mailers for observation to family physicians. Intermarriages among heredita y Inebriates are, perhaps, among the most copious and melancholy examples. An observed case recorded by the editor of the Quarteely Journal of Inebriety affords a striking example of this “The ancestors of AB. were Irish and

inebriates. Owing to a rise in real estate tha son became wealthy. He was talented and a paroxysmal inebriate a’; twenty-six years of years. He married a pious woman, having neorot r c ancestors, in spite of the protest of the family physician. Seven children followed this marriage ; two d:od in infancy of convulsions ; the th 'd became insane at puberty, and is now in an insane asylum hopelessly incurable ; the fourth grew up to manhood, and is now an inebriate pauper and cumins!, and has been in prison five oat of the last eight years ; the fifth bcc»me the wife of a wealthy nnn, and In a piroxysm of inebil.te lasanity, killed her child, poisoned her husband, and then committed suicide. The sixth is a low dealer in spirits and a petty criminal who has repeatedly been punished for crime. The seventh after a short life of great excess, died in a public hospital, the father became a paralytic, lost his property, and died in an asylum. The mother died in a pne’psral convulsions at thirty-four. —British Medical Journal.