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Title: Types of mental defectives
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Barr, Martin W., 1860-1938 Maloney, Earle Francis, 1891- joint author
Subjects: Mental retardation People with mental disabilities Stupidity Mental Retardation Mentally Disabled Persons
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's son & co
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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nd he called: Its me! Im here! Clap! Clap! Why dont youclap? He learned every branch of house-work, and did it as well asany woman. He took great pride in his work, and constantly calledattention to it. He was fond of giving names, calling one of his sistersLazy Lizzie and another one Fashionable Ann; and so he alwaysintroduced them. He went to school for five years but accomplishedabsolutely nothing. CASE B.—^Low-Grade Imbecile. J. K. was 37 years old when photo was taken. The parents, whowere first cousins, were people of culture, education and refinement.There is much consumption in both families. The parents were in goodhealth prior to this boys birth. The father was 26 and the mother 22at the time of Js birth. The father later died of rheumatism. J. wasa pale and sickly child. A brother and a sister died in infancy, fromcauses unknown. J. went to school for 20 years and was given special instruction andcoaching, but learned absolutely nothing. The same work was gone i PLATE VII
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