Life History Album - Table Charts for Recording Development of Body Mind From Childhood

This book, first published in 1902, is aimed at helping the reader to anticipate and avoid hereditary physical, mental and other health problems.

List of contents

Preface; Introductory remarks; Genealogy; Description of the child at birth; Tables: Life and medical history, photographs; Life and medical history, anthropological observations, photographs; Records of wife (or husband); Records of children; Appendix. Tests of vision; Charts.

About the author

Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, pyschometrician, statistician and founder of the science of eugenics. He was knighted in 1909.

Summary

In this book, published in 1902 as the second edition of the 1884 original, Sir Francis Dalton conveys his hope that, through the scrupulous use of this record book throughout life, hereditary physical, mental and other health problems may be anticipated and avoided by the owner of the book and their descendants.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Galton, Galton Francis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107632141
• ISBN: 978-1-107-63214-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Genetics, History of Medicine, History of Science, Medical Genetics