Marriage and Heredity
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Heredity and Alcoholism in the Medical Sphere: The Netherlands, 1850–1900
The diversity of opinions around alcohol use and its connections to heredity in the nineteenth century are well illustrated by the two quotations above. By 1900 it was generally accepted that chronic alcoholism could be inherited or transmitted to descendants as morbid nervous predisposition. Together with tuberculosis and syphilis, alcoholism was regarded as a major cause of degeneration and a...
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دوره 25 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016