...therefore inclined to recognize, not the heredity of disease but the heredity of the inferior organ. " The introduction of heredity in cases of genuine epilepsy...from objections. The anomalies of form in the brain — coincide with our morphologic inferiorities. * * * Asymmetry of the base of the skull, ocular anomalies,...

...hitherto belonged to it in a series of diseases which have usually been considered hereditary. Heredity The introduction of heredity in cases of genuine epilepsy...imbecility which occurs, as a functional inferiority of the brain. The etiological importance of polioencephalitis discussed by Freud and Rie is found in its...