Citation

Winslow F. Texas medical journal (Austin, Tex.) 1897; 12(7): 376-382.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1897)

DOI

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PMID

36955828

PMCID

PMC9621800

Abstract

With reference to suicide, there is no fact that has been more clearly established than that of its hereditary character. Of all diseases to which the various organs are subject, there are none more naturally transmitted from one generation to another than affections of the brain. It is not necessary that the disposition to suicide should manifest itself in every generation. It often passes over one, and appears in the next, like insanity unat tended with this propensity. But if the members of the family so predisposed are carefully examined, it will be found that the various shades and gradations of the malady will be easily per ceptible. Some are distinguished for their flightiness of manner, others for their strange eccentricity, likings, and dislikings, irregularity of their passions, capricious, and excitable temper ament, hyprochondriasis, and melancholia. These are often but the minute shades and variations of a hereditary disposition to' suicidal madness

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