MEDICAL CONGRESS.
AN IRISH "WAKE." SCIENCE OF HEREDITY. . * !1 vrimea'—'SiMiiey Sun' Special Cables. ■{Received Last Night, 6.40 o'clock.) LONDON, August 13. At the Medical Congress, Dr Mc[Walter, Ireland, advocated that the &>tate should institute necropsy at death. This was the only possible means of ascertaining the cause ■| of. death. He stated that recently jy A Dublin doctor, upon information imparted, gave a certificate of death, Kind heavy insurance was drawn. (During the "wake," the corpse rose T»nd complained bitterly that it had not received a proper share of the . ('.proceeds. Professor. Bateson, in a paper on ''♦• Heredity," said it- was impossible to avoid the conviction that no matter what influences were brought to l)ear by hygiene or education, the Ultimate decision* rested with the ■ -germ cells. The whole course of moscience and legislation had been exercised to eliminate the defective, strains from our midst. Yet, gene- • Sic science had iioV justified the ..preJ • sent violent measures in America ■'nvith'a view to controlling marriage -<ra the basis of eugenics, ge- •• netic" physiology was stilt empirical. The Conference resolved to con""jfluct experiments with animals, to discover the relation of alcohol on •degeneracy.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 August 1913, Page 5
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190MEDICAL CONGRESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 August 1913, Page 5
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