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Alcohol and Racial Degeneracy

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 2, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 27.

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Alcohol and Racial Degeneracy

By L. Mervin Maus

L. Mervin Maus, Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S.A.
THE widespread custom of using alcoholic beverages is a perplexing and difficult problem to attack, on account of the prestige it holds with a large number of men and women of social prominence who
country have become extinct. The progeny of such families became drunkards and died childless or left children cursed with some form of degeneracy which rendered fertility impossible. It is only necessary to search the records of the