Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...three grades: --high, niidd high erade imbecile tfn-r.-tor.. represents the clam which stands next below the normal child Jl mental condition rests. May not two children present a similar picture of mental inferiority or feeblemindedness, though the feeblemindedness may in the one case rest upon an incurable brain defect, and in the other case be merely the symptom of a temporarily arrested development? If we affirm that of these two children the one is feebleminded but the other only apparenily feebleminded, this may be a justifiable use of the term feebleminded. It restricts the term, as many would have it, to an incurable brain defect. But in what way are we able to determine wberher an apparently feebleminded child is really feebleminded or not. or in other words whether the brain defect is incurable f A mental and physical examination extending over an boor, or a even a month, may not be sufficient to make a satisfactory nosis, which in its terms involves a prognosis as-well, t f Tsf belief that the distinction between real and apprnmH ieuiaxic-iie.-ness, or as I prefer to. put it, between a 'iuAaemnatasoaaf fous. rests upon an incurable brain defect, and a feebl is the expression of arrested cerebral ascertained after a protracted examinatioix, still, after a persistent effort has bean arrested mental processes. There are iillj man is able at a glance to diajpci'-a are other children with whom guish between these two forme ' i protracted examination and efiiir perience that careful individim. tntrr: normality a small peroearuipr Ie CilirrE T1 feebleminded by phvei'-imit. vi.iii'--itcz-"f correct so long as it is vndcmufct- jae.."-status present and not a ir'rMr-r zt: '.--' ' child. I do not bftUw tziar 2aer-2..."
