from convulsions are recorded (in some cases many of the children).Of offspring actually living who are or have been affected with epilepsy, only 5 children are recorded, and I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of that figure.Probably many other defects are present, and epilepsy may occur later in others, but the present condition of 425 patients with 197 descendants only, and 5 epileptics seems to indicate that other causes than direct heredity of epilepsy must be responsible for the continuance of the malady.
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WILLIAM ALDREN TURNER (1913) studied this question.