A manual for the classification, training, and education of the feeble-minded, imbecile, & idiotic / by P. Martin Duncan and William Millard.

Date:
1866
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Credit: A manual for the classification, training, and education of the feeble-minded, imbecile, & idiotic / by P. Martin Duncan and William Millard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    account of cataract in both eyes wliicla produced total blindness, he has been unable to make mental progress or to be trained to usefulness in any way. Case 4.—A tall, pleasing-looking feeble-minded girl, aged eighteen years, with some considerable mental power. The head is well formed. The face is not quite in good shape, the special senses are nearly perfect, and there is much power of speech. The power of walking is defective. The body is well made, and she is muscular. There are no automatic movements. She is able to do a good deal for herself, but cannot finish her dressing, and she is scrupulously clean. The memory is defec- tive, the perception dull, intellectual perception hardly exists, and attention and mental concentration are slightly developed. The mental experience and powers generally axe those of a young child. She is well behaved, modest, and amiable : the emotions are easily affected, and she has a slight knowledge of religion. Her health has been good, and she has gradually eme]-ged from the condition of idiocy, during childhood, to her present state, in spite of the inability of her parents to train her. She has made gratifying progress in all respects. She has learnt to read, write, and sew. She has been trained to useful- ness in making beds and other kinds of domestic work; her health did not prove' strong enough for the laimdry, where she was becoming valuable. In sewing she shows the greatest proficiency, and her mother being a dress-maker, she ndll be able, in all probability, to earn her own livelihood. When at home for a holiday, she proved so valuable to her mother by her efficient help, that her re-election for life in the Asylum is not desired. Case 5.—A tall, half-starved-looking feeble-minded youth, aged twenty-two, with a deep fi-own and a miserable expression of countenance. The head is rather like a sugar-loaf in shape. The face is sallow and melancholy-looking. The eyes, mouth, and ears are well formed. The body also is well formed, but he is rather thin. The muscles are flabby and weak. The special senses are tolerably perfect, and he speaks slowly but
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