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He married at 18 or 20 and commenced the study of medicine at Burlington, Vt.

As a boy he does not appear to have been a scapegrace, and no criminal charge is there on record against him. He claims to have come from respectable New England stock and to have been religiously and carefully brought up. Very little has been stated as to his heredity. Holmes, was a criminal par excellence is beyond doubt, but how far and in what respects he was a degenerate, in the accepted sense of the term, is worthy of serious consideration.įew criminals have received more public attention, but despite this, many essential details of his history are wanting. That Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H. I have highlighted the more remarkable findings.įellow of the Chicago Academy of Medicine Numerous stigmata he bore proved, but he was not more of one than many He describes Holmes as having the most degenerate anatomy that Talbot had ever seen over twenty years but then goes on to say " Holmes was certainly a degenerate physically, as the The work is mostly dry with occasional bizarre archaic references and some lack of clarity. I have lightly annotated it to clear up errors in Holmes biography.