Note 85 — DEGENERATION.

Compare von Krafft-Ebing, p. 179: “Wonderful as it is, cases adduced by von Flemming, Ruer, and Demeaux prove the fact that even children of otherwise temperate parents, whose copulation took place in a fateful hour of drunkenness, are extremely disposed to mental derangement, especially to diseases of the nerves. This bad interferential effect may show itself from birth as inborn imbecility (Schwach und Blödsinn).”