TY  - JOUR
T1  - NOtes on a trip to south africa
AU  - Honey JA
Y1  - 1909/10/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550150060012
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1204
EP  - 1205
VL  - LIII
IS  - 15
N2  - To the Editor: 
    —Not the least of the many discussions relating to a better and more highly developed physique in man, has been one which has universally created a feeling of horror—I allude to the prevention of the continuation of life in a child deformed mentally or physically after its birth. It is not uncommon knowledge that the perfect development of the Zulus of Natal, and their superior mental capacity have far overtopped that of other native tribes of South Africa. Years before the advent of thewhite man in Natal it was a tribal dictate that infants with deformity or malformation of head or body should be destroyed immediately after birth. Students of heredity and of men will see the reason for the physical and mental development of the Zulu. A child born of healthy parents, with a perfect physical development, cannot but gain the mastery over the child born
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550150060012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550150060012
ER  -