Idiocy and its treatment by the physiological method / by Edward Seguin.
- Édouard Séguin
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Idiocy and its treatment by the physiological method / by Edward Seguin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![as the foundation-stone you now lay lies dee]) in the bosom of the earth. Even we, though a stranger, unable to appreciate the elevated tone of these aspirations, were rendered capable of expressing cognate feelings by the contagious influence of the engrossing topic. We said : God has scattered among us, rare as the possessors of talent or genius, the idiot, the blind, the deaf mute, in order to bind the talented to the incapable, the rich to the needy, all men to each other, by a tie of indissoluble solidarity. The old bonds are dissolv- ing; man is already unwilling to contribute money or palaces for the support of indolent classes; but he is every day more ready to build palaces and give annuities for the indigent or infirm, the chosen friends of Jesus Christ. To see that stone, token of a new alliance between humanity and a class hitherto neglected, is the greatest joy of my life; for I, too, have labored for the poor idiot These were a few of the transient expressions of the lasting feeling evinced at that memorable meeting. Once awakened in our bosoms, these feelings live for ever, and our actions are only their translation in deeds and monu- ments. To render these feelings into facts, one nation after another has acknowledged its duty towards the idiot. In Switzerland, Dr. J. Guggenbuhl began to study Cretinism in 1839, and opened his school on the Abendberg in 1842, simultaneously with that of M. Saegert, at Berlin; both, it is said, without having any knowledge of our practice, or of our four successive pamphlets on the treatment and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292425_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
