Report Made to the Legislature of Massachusetts, Upon IdiocyPrinted from the state edition by Coolidge & Wiley, 1848 - 54 Seiten |
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Report Made to the Legislature of Massachusetts, Upon Idiocy (Classic Reprint) Samuel G. Howe Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Report Made to the Legislature of Massachusetts, Upon Idiocy (Classic Reprint) Samuel G. Howe Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
1000 ordinary persons Ability to Count Activity almshouses Arc of Cranium Capacity for fixing Cerebellum Circumfer'e of Cranium Command of Muscular condition of body Congenital Idiocy Consumption of Food Coronal Region Cranium from root Diameter of Cranium Dynamic condition feeble fixing Sight gestation Given to Masturbation gluttonous Greatest Circumfer'e higher numbers superiority human Hydrocephalic Idiocy or Insanity Idiotic persons Insanity known intemperate Laura Bridgman Lower Frontal Region lower numbers marking Manifestat'n of Amative manifested Moral Sentiments Muscular Contrac Nose to Occipital Numbers for reference Occipital Spine Parents Drunkards Parents in normal reference to names Reflective Faculties root of Nose scrofulous breed Sensibility to Musical Sight upon visible simpleton Skill standard among ordinary Subject to fits Tactile Sensibility Temperaments ex tivity of various Upper Frontal Region Width of Chest Yes 5 ft Yes Deformed Yes Not Yes Yes Very scrofulous Yes Yes Masturbation Yes Yes Yes نیے نیے نیے
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - ... •An idiot, or natural fool, is one that hath had no understanding from his nativity ; and therefore is by law presumed never likely to attain any.
Seite 77 - IDIOTS of the lowest class are mere organisms, masses of flesh and bone in human shape, in which the brain and nervous system have no command over the system of voluntary muscles; and which, consequently, are without power of locomotion, without speech, without any manifestation of intellectual or affective faculties.
Seite 40 - ... faculty of speech had never been developed, and many whose voracious and indiscriminate gluttony satisfied itself with whatever they could lay hands upon, with the garbage thrown to swine or with their own excrements; these unfortunate beings, the rejected of humanity, I have seen properly clad, standing erect, walking, speaking, eating in an orderly manner at a common table, working quietly as carpenters and farmers; gaining by their own labor the means of existence; storing their awakened intelligence...
Seite 89 - Simpletons are the highest class of idiots in whom the harmony between the nervous and muscular system is nearly perfect ; who consequently have normal powers of locomotion and animal action ; considerable activity of the perceptive and affective faculties ; and reason enough for their simple individual guidance, but not enough for their social relations.
Seite 12 - A man is not an idiot if he hath any glimmering of reason (/), so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters.
Seite 12 - ... idiota, the profits of his lands and the custody of his person may be granted by the king to some subject, who has interest enough to obtain them...
Seite 48 - From 7 to 8J is passed in reading to one another, or in conversations and explanations with the teacher, upon things which may excite the reflective power ; two evenings in the week this hour is devoted to a concert and a dance.
Seite 13 - spendthrift" in all its provisions relating to guardians and wards, contained in this or in any other statute, is intended to include every person who is liable to be put under guardianship, on account of excessive drinking, gaming, idleness, or debauchery.
Seite 12 - But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot ; he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas.
Seite 82 - ... tithe of the bodily ills which flesh is now heir to, it must be by a clear understanding of, and a willing obedience to, the law which makes the parents the blessing or the curse of the children ; the givers of strength and vigor and beauty, or the dispensers of debility and disease and deformity.