f
objected to children and did not intend to have any and knew how to
take care of herself. All she wanted to know was, whether she was in
danger of being infected. I told her no, but that in my opinion there
was some danger of her husband developing general paresis or locomotor
ataxia.

The girl had been a teacher for about twelve years, and she was so
sick at heart of the work, was so anxious for a home of her own, that
she decided to take the risk. And they got married. The marriage
remained childless. The man developed general paresis (softening of
the brain) three years later and died about a year afterward. The
woman, now a widow, I understand, is not sorry for the step she had
taken. This shows what things our social-economic conditions and our
moral code are responsible for.

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

WHO MAY AND WHO MAY NOT MARRY

The Physician Often Consulted as to Advisability of
Marriage--_Venereal Disease_ the Most Common Question--
_Tuberculosis_--Sexual Appetite of Tubercular Patients--Effect
of Pregnancy Contraceptive Knowledge for Tubercular Wife--
_Heart Disease_--Serious Bar to Marriage--Influence of Sexual
Intercourse--_Cancer_--Fear of Hereditary Transmission--
_Exophthalmic Goiter_--Most Frequent in Women--Simple Goiter--
Exceptions to Rule--_Obesity_--Family History--Obesity and
Stoutness Not Synonymous--_Arteriosclerosis_--Danger in Sexual
Act--_Gout_--Real Causes of Gout--_Mumps_--Parotid Glands and Sex
Organs--Mumps and Sterility--Ooephoritis Due to Mumps--
_Hemophilia_--Hemophilic Sons May Marry--Hemophilic Daughters May
Not Marry--_Anemia_--_Chlorosis_--_Epilepsy_--Hysteria--Symptoms of
Hysteria--Marriage of Hysterical Women--_Alcoholism_--Effect on
Offspring--Alcoholics and Impotence--_Feeblemindedness_--Evil
Effects on Offspring--Sterilization of Feebleminded Only
Preventive--_Insanity_--Functional Insanity--Organic Insanity--
Hereditary Transmissibility of Insanity--Fear Resulting in
Insanity--Environment versus Heredity in Insanity--_Neurosis_--
_Neurasthenia_--_Psychasthenia_--_Neuropathy_--_Psychopathy_--Nervous
Conditions and Genius--Sexual Impotence and Genius--_Drug
Addiction_--External Causes--_Consanguineous Marriages_--When
Consanguineous Marriages are Advisable--Offspring of Consanguineous
Marriages--Homosexuality--Homosexuals Often Ignorant of Their
Condition--Sexual Repression and Homosexuality--Sadism and
Divorce--Maso