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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![MAN AND HIS THREE FACES neck, huge paw-like hands, and an ungainly gait. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that, without entering a hospital or an asylum, any ordinary observer to whom the marks have once been pointed out, may easily observe within the compass of a day's ramble in London a range of Mongolian or semi-Mongolian types, amongst our native Cockneys. If investigation is pursued, and the public elementary schools, the hospitals, the asylums, and the infirmaries are visited, other Mongolian types, associated with more or less mental defect, may be picked out. But, in these latter, there is something more than Mongolism to be seen. There is the suggestion of the ape—and of a particular ape — that Lucas Malet wrote into the picture in Adrian Savage, Some of these types may be briefly sketched :— I. In public infirmaries and in work¬ houses, are to be seen many feeble infants who do not long survive birth, dying of pure inanition or of respiratory [ 15]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18025110_0022.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
