Intermarriage : or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions

Summary: Concepts of heredity played a powerful role in structuring 19th-century debates over disease, sexuality, morality, class, race, intellect, gender, and evolution. Walker is also the author of Beauty : illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women (1836) and Women physiologically considered as to minds, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity, and divorce (1839).    Language: English Physical Type/Description: viii, 384 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm Source of Acquisition: Gift to The Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library presented by Dr. F.P. Calhoun, 11 September 1942. General Note: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by J. & H.G. Langley, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."--Title page verso.    Local Note: HEALTH: Added as part of 2008 Rare Book Project. The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Publications Program.    Additional Physical Form: Also available online. Ownership and Custodial History: Autograph on flyleaf, title page: "A.W. Calhoun, M.D., Newnan, Georgia, May 5, 1871." Binding Note: Bound in burgundy pebble-grain cloth with blind-stamped boards, gold stamping on spine, pink endpapers. Joints and spine cover worn, hinges loose. Stain (made by oil, kerosene or similar substance) at top right-hand corner of pages.