Hereditary Taint

of liquor is as well known in medicine as that of any pulmonary disease and society at large tolerates after a fashion and provides for the decrepitude of children thus begotten in alcohol by furnishing asylums for the idiotic and insane. Mental obliquity in some form is page 14 sure to crop out in its scions. Dr. Ray, a very high authority, in his work on" Hygiene" says "another potent agency in vitiating the quality of the brain is habitual intemperance, and the effect is far oftener contained in the offspring than in the drunkard himself." Dr. Howe says "that of the cases of idiocy not one-fourth can be identified as born of even temperate parents." In other words persistent functional disturbance at last brings about organic change and thus permissively the state contributes to