A Terrible Record

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 2 October 1886, Page 4

A Terrible Record

Vavrbigcs entered into without due rv-iiAA, physiological conditions arc only too frequently matters for obit u-vation to family physicians, Intermarriages among Hereditary inebriates are perhaps, among the most copious and melancholy examples. An ob-BtM-ved'case recorded by the editor ot th-) Quarterly Journal of Inebriety, affords a striking example of this *< The ancestors of A.B. were Irish and ineoriates. Owing to a rise iv real estate the son became wealthy. He was 'talented and a paroxysmal inebriate at 26 years of age. He married a pious woman having neurotic ancestors, in spite of the protest of the family physician. Seven cnjldron followed this marriage, two died Jn infancy of convulsions ; the third "became' insane at puberty, and is now in an insane asylum, hopelessly incurable; the fourth grew to manhood and is now an inebriate pauper, and criminal, and has been in prison five j i. nt of the last eight years; the fifth "became the wife of a wealthy man : and iv a paroxysm of inebriate insanity, Mlled-her child, poisoned her husband aud 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 a asylum. The mother died in puerperaPcbnvulsions at 34." — British Medical Journal.