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ABSTRACT THIS year's Harveian Oration before the Royal College of Physicians of London was delivered by Sir Frederick Mott on heredity in relation to mental disease. A subject of more
pressing urgency and general public interest could scarcely have been chosen. The gravest problems of individual ethics and State medicine depend entirely for their solution on the state of
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and Insanity. _Nature_ 116, 660–661 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116660b0 Download citation * Issue Date: 31 October 1925 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116660b0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone
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