The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1924
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST the occurrence in England and neigh¬ bouring countries of ill-developed persons of Mongolian type is, as Chambers saw, a fact of great im¬ portance and one strictly relevant to all hypotheses of human origins and descent. No particular notice was taken of this fact, however, until some twenty years later, when Dr. Langdon-Down, a distinguished physician attached to the London Hospital, in a short paper that has become a classic of enduring interest, suggested the classification of idiots and imbeciles by their ' ethnic characters/ Langdon-Down, who did not, so far as I know, accept Chambers' mono- phyletic scheme of human development, declared that in England we meet with some idiots and imbeciles who appear to belong to the Ethiopian or Negro variety of the human race, others who resemble Malays, and so on, while * a very large number of congenital idiots are typical Mongols and can be fairly referred to one of the great divisions of [10]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18025110_0017.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
