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race*biology and done it with so much success that the authorities in the State
have now considered the time ripe to found a Swedish Race*biological Institution
under his direction (see an account of this page 48).
Already in 1899 we find an artide in Hygiea on myodonus in families, in
which quarter his interest lies. He describes there this uncommon and peculiar
disease, which has since received the name of myoclonus*epilepsy, and is only
found in one place in the south of Sweden. During the years which followed he
drew attention to it in several treatises, among them being a monograph »Die pro*
gressive Myoclonus*Epilepsie» (1903). In the years 1908 he again took up the
investigations and then thoroughly examined the large and at present degenerated
farmer family in which many cases of the above mentioned disease have appeared.
1 he result of five years work in this district was presented by Lundborg in an
important work: »Medizinisch*biologische Familienforschungen innerhalt eines
2,232 köpfigen Bauerngeschlechtes in Schweden» (Text u. Atlas, Jena 1913). This
work which has won recognition among experts in every country is the most
complete family investigation, built on medicabgenealogical grounds which, taken
as a whole, is in existence. In this work Lundborg treats of several weighty race*
biological questions, and he shows very plainly that myoclonus*epilepsy is inhe*
rited in faet as a recessive factor according to Mendel’s law. This is the first
time that anyone has succeeded in showing exactly, that the disposition for the
disease appears as a recessive unit in mankind.
Professor Lundborg himself gives a very brief account of these investigations
of his in this work (see page 57).
During recent years Lundborg has been busy with race*biological studies
among Swedes, Finns, and Lapps in the most northern parts of Sweden and at
the same time he observed attentively the biological effects of a mixture of race
and of intermarriage. In several articles in Hygiea, Svenska Läkaresällskapets
Handlingar (The Swedish Medical Society’s Proceedings) and Hereditas he has
recently taken up the treatment of questions of this kind and thinks it may be
found that higher stature, increasing disposition for tuberculosis as well as certain
signs of »degeneration», stand in some connection with the Crossing of races.
By means of arranging National and Race*type Exhibitions in several parts of
Sweden in 1919 and by popular works (among them Swedish Nationabtypes)
Lundborg has helped strenuously in awakening the interest of a greater public in
anthropological, race*biological and eugenic questions in Sweden.
STANDARD WORKS ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND RACE*BIOLOGY.
Anders Retzius: Om formen av Nordboarnes kranier (1842). — Gustaf Ret*
zius: Finska kranier (1878); Crania Suecica antiqua (1900); Das Menschenhirn
(1896). — G. Retzius and C. M. Furst: Anthropologia Suecica (1902). — Gustaf
v. Duben: Om Lappland och Lapparne. Etnografiska studier. Stockholm 1873;
Crania Lapponica. Stockholm 1910. — C. M. Furst and Fr. C. C. Hansen: Cra*
nia Groenlandica. Copenhagen 1915. — H. Lundborg: Medizinisch*biologische
Familienforschungen innerhalb eines 2,232 köpfigen Bauerngeschlechtes in Schweden.
Text u. Atlas. G. Fischer Jena 1913. H. Lundborg: Svenska Folktyper, Bildgalleri,
ordnat efter rasbiologiska principer. Stockholm, A.*B. Hasse W. 1 ullberg 1919.
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