Chapter 27

HEREDITARY EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, ETC.

Alcoholism produces nerve degeneration--Tight lacing may have the same result--Nerve degeneracy may lead to alcoholism--Idiocy and inebriety increasing--Effects of wine--Evils of patent medicines--Inebriety of parents entails injury on offspring--Folly of marrying a man to reform him--Hereditary effects of morphine, chloral, etc.--Dangers of the tobacco habit--Inherited effects of tobacco. 223