72-77.

W.C.Sullivan (_Alcoholism_, 1906, Ch.

XI), summarizes the evidence showing that alcohol is a factor in human degeneration.
[9] There is even reason to believe that the alcoholism of the mother's father may impair her ability as a mother.

Bunge (_Die Zunehmende Unfaehigkeit der Frauen ihre Kinder zu Stillen_, fifth edition, 1907), from an investigation extending over 2,000 families, finds that chronic alcoholic poisoning in the father is the chief cause of the daughter's inability to suckle, this inability not usually being recovered in subsequent generations.

Bunge has, however, been opposed by Dr.Agnes Bluhm, "Die Stillungsnot," _Zeitschrift fuer Soziale Medizin_, 1908 (fully summarized by herself in _Sexual-Probleme_, Jan., 1909).
[10] See, e.g., T.Arthur Helme, "The Unborn Child," _British Medical Journal_, Aug.