[263] Bertolotti, Testamenti di Cardano, 1882.
[264] De Vita Propria.
[265] Famil XIII. 2, XXIII. 12.
[266] Ireland, The Blot upon the Brain, 1885, p. 147; Déjerine, L’Hérédité dans les Maladies, 1886.
[267] Bilder aus mein. Knabenzeit, 1837.
[268] Memorie, p. 341. I.e., “The heads of the Taparelli are not in the right place.” Taparelli was a family name of D’Azeglio.
[269] Souvenirs d’Enfance, p. 20.
[270] Meynert, Jahresber. für Psychiatr., Vienna, 1880.
[271] Ribot, L’Hérédité Psychologique, p. 171.
[272] The same kind of influence may be traced among the insane and degenerate. A son of Louis XIV. and Madame de Montespan, conceived during a crisis of remorse and grief, at the epoch of the Jubilee, was called “l’enfant du jubilé,” on account of his condition of permanent melancholy. A man of talent, subject to attacks of mental exaltation, had several children, of whom two, conceived during these attacks, were insane. Déjerine, L’Hérédité dans les Maladies du Système Nerveux, 1886.