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Notes on Idiocy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

P. Martin Duncan
P. Martin Duncan*
Affiliation:
Essex Hall Asylum
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It is remarkable, considering the advance which has been made in the study of the diseases of the mind during this century, that so little is still known concerning idiocy and idiots. With an increasing population, there is no decrease in the numbers of these helpless beings; their origin is connected with the, apparently, inevitable results of our social system; their very existence is, in most instances, a natural protest against vexatious and unreasonable interference with those great laws which govern the well-being of communities; and, both in a scientific sense as well as in a philanthropical, they have great claims for consideration.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 7 , Issue 38 , July 1861 , pp. 232 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1861

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