The mind unveiled; or : A brief history of twenty-two imbecile children.

  • Isaac Newton Kerlin
Date:
1858
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Credit: The mind unveiled; or : A brief history of twenty-two imbecile children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Brandeis University Libraries, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

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    CHAPTER II §IigI]bfr b£ gimse. GEGRGiE, A poor orphan boy, of whose birth and history nothing is now known, Georgie's demands on onr sympathies are great; to be an orphan, is sorrowful —to be an abandoned orphan, is more so—but to be parentless, friendless, and a helpless idiot, is the depth of human sorrow. Poor Georgie had never known a mother's caress : his irritable spirit had never been soothed by a gentle hand; a little outcast, no one cared to be taxed with his wants, which, though childish, were unreasonable, when exacted from any one but a sacrificing mother. It is no wonder then, that with no warming sunshine of affection, to brighten his early days, he became cold and suspicious to- wards all advances—that his temper became soured 3*
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