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    Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease
    Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease
    Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease
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    Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease

    By Horatio Milo Pollock

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease - Horatio Milo Pollock

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      Mental Disease, by Horatio Milo Pollock

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      Title: Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease

      Author: Horatio Milo Pollock

      Release Date: February 12, 2011 [EBook #35244]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EUGENICS IN PREVENTION OF MENTAL DISEASE ***

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      Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention

      of Mental Disease

      By

      HORATIO M. POLLOCK, Ph.D.

      Statistician, New York State Hospital Commission

      THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, Inc.

      370 Seventh Avenue

      New York City

      1921

      The National Committee for Mental Hygiene

      GENERAL PURPOSES

      The National Committee for Mental Hygiene and its affiliated

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