TY  - JOUR
T1  - DEgeneracy. its causes, signs and results.
Y1  - 1899/03/11
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450370046011
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 560
EP  - 560
VL  - XXXII
IS  - 10
N2  - This issue of the Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock Ellis, is by an American author, a Chicago practitioner of dentistry, whose previous writings in a less popular form have given him a cosmopolitan reputation as an investigator in the special field of human degenerative defects. In the present work he gives the general results of over twenty years of study, and follows up the history and the facts of degeneration as it is understood in the more limited and scientific sense. His book is not, like that of Nordau, a tirade against social, musical and literary fads and their originators, but is a judicial and readable exposé of the real and alleged causes of degeneracy, including under this head such agencies as atavism, intermarriage, race mixture, toxic agencies, and diseases, climate, soil, food, overstrain in school, and of the chief stigmata in the cranium, and the body generally, and
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450370046011
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450370046011
ER  -