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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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training the best impulses were aroused and constantlyfostered by stimulation; while on the other hand, the inherent ten-dencies, kept in abeyance and guarded from temptation, became in agreat measure nullified. The family history shows the father an EngHshman, much older thanhis wife, a house-painter by trade, and a drunkard who finally com-mitted suicide, presumably from family troubles. The mother, whohad but Httle mind, was the daughter of a most immoral and drunkenman, and had a brother who was an expert counterfeiter, two idiotsisters, and another sister—a moral imbecile—well-known in the under-world as The Infamous J. E. of P. Alburtus, the fourth-born, had two brothers and one sister, allthough physically strong, morally weak. During infancy and earlychildhood, he was suppressed and kept down, starved and neglected,with poor food and poorer hygienic surroundings. In later life he hadvivid recollections of his mother frequently giving him beer to keep himquiet. PLATE XXIII
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Case D.Idiot Savant. 129 IDIOTS SAVANTS 131 When he came under our care in his ninth year, a tall, pale, dark-haired, dark-eyed, delicate lad, with a record of frequent attacks of ca-tarrhal jaundice, weak lungs, weak morals, and defective nervous sys-tem, we classed him as a high-grade mental defective with many con-tradictions. Superficially affectionate, with but slight appreciation ofvalues, he would soon forget a kindness conferred, but at the same timehe would render willing and ready service if called upon. Given tointrospection, he had periods of dreaminess, enveloped in thoughtswhich he refused to divulge. Bright in many ways, he was both in-dolent and erratic; persistently headstrong and disobedient, particu-larly in trifling with fire, he was still appreciative of a trust committedto him and could be depended upon in an emergency. His teacher found him slow and behind others of his class, a back-wardness easily traceable, however, to the influences of heredity andearly envi

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