Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1879 — The Children of Rum Drinkers. [ARTICLE]

The Children of Rum Drinkers.

I , I , « I Dr* Merlin, of the Stfptlrierf, Paris, has made a Series <>f inter- I > eating observations on nervou« ’ ! affections among the offspring of alcoholic parents, llisre/ults may be summed up as follows:*' In 83 families in whiph one or more . members showed nervousexcitabilwith a history of alcoholic origin, there were 110 childfoi).' Of these, foß—more than a <pi;iy.oi?' had convulsions, am! in the year 1871, JG9 were dead;24l were still alive, but 83, i. c., more than onethird of the survivors, were epileptic.