New facts and remarks concerning idiocy : being a lecture delivered before the New York Medical Journal Association, October 15, 1869 / by Edward Seguin.

  • Seguin, E. C. (Edward Constant), 1843-1898.
Date:
1870
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Credit: New facts and remarks concerning idiocy : being a lecture delivered before the New York Medical Journal Association, October 15, 1869 / by Edward Seguin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Brandeis University Libraries, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

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    DEDICATION. The drift of this lecture took shape last summer, during a visit to some schools for idiots: to see is to think. After its reading, it was dismembered to suit several publica- tions, namely, The Quarterly Journal of Psychological Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, The Medical Record, Appleton's Illustrated Journal, The World; and it was also reproduced, with considerable mutilations, in numerous country papers. Parent-authors have seldom the Medea's taste for scattering the limbs of their progeny. I, personally, confess to the opposite tendency; and thought of re-uniting these ideas as parts of one of the documents that will hereafter serve to write the history of the efforts made in this Republic to improve idiots and to eradicate idiocy. But to be accept- able, this light contribution to the bibliography of nervous diseases needs the patronage of a name- indissolubly con-