The mental affections of children : idiocy, imbecility and insanity / by William W. Ireland.

  • William Wotherspoon Ireland
Date:
1898
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Credit: The mental affections of children : idiocy, imbecility and insanity / by William W. Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE THOUGH not a few pages of my former book ' On Idiocy and Imbecility ' are to be found in this volume, the changes are so considerable that they warrant a more comprehensive title. The principal additions to the new work are the pages on the Development of the Brain in Childhood, the Pathology of Genetous and Paralytic Idiocy, the chapters on Sclerotic and Syphilitic Idiocy, and that on the Insanity of Children. I am pleased to have this opportunity of being able to give my more matured views, though the principal merit of this work probably is that it brings together the widely-scattered studies of able observers on the subject of Idiocy and Imbecility. Though the book is mainly intended for medical men, it is to be hoped that some parts of it will be found also useful to those who have the care and guardianship of idiots and imbeciles, or who take a philanthropic interest in provisions for their welfare. It gives me encouragement to know that some interest has been taken by the rising school of psycho- logy in the United States in the lessons to be gained from mental pathology ; nor do I yet despair of receiving some little attention from the students of psychology in Great