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 than on the Mongohsm, and (ii) for the average Englishman the character¬ istics of racial Mongolism are a pigtail, chopsticks, and pidgin English. As a matter of fact, it is the ' Mongol¬ ism ' rather than the idiocy that it is important to stress. For the ' Mongol-^ ism ' that is so evidently displayed by a proportion of our indigenous popula¬ tion is far from being a mark of idiocy or imbecility, but is a kind of physical and psychical make-up that is coarsely and brutally displayed and accentuated in certain idiots and imbeciles. Just so are other types of make-up displayed in cretins, in cases of acromegaly, ^ and in cases of what we call dystrophia adiposo-genitalis. Yet, as is well known, conformity to these types may be recognised in distinguished families and persons. The problem of Mongolism amongst us has then far greater importance than attaches to a question of purely medical interest. It has indeed long been known to literary and iconographie artists that [12]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18025110_0019.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
