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The Idiot: His Place in Creation, and His Claims on Society · Frederick Bateman — chapter 10 of 17 · ~158 words · public domain

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Bruce, Lewis C., on thyroid feeding, 95

Burton-Fanning, 94

Caird, Mrs. Mona, 39

Causes of idiocy, 23

Cicero, 69

Classification, 17

Consanguine marriages, 32

Convolutions of the brain in men of genius, and in those of low culture, 45 in idiots, 51

Couerbe, on the rôle of phosphorus in the brain, 52

Craniectomy, 101 statistics of, 103

Cranium, early closure of the sutures of, 101

Cranium, form of the, and its connection with idiocy, 43

Cross, Lord, on habitual drunkards, 31

Crossley House, 107

Cuvier, brain of, 46

Dahl, Ludwig, 25, 29

Dana, on Craniectomy, 102

Definition of idiocy, 15

Dunlop, 93

Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, discussion at, 92

Educational Overpressure, on, 35 has induced suicide in children, 41

Esquirol, 85, 118

Faculty a, must not be confounded with its material organ, 63

Forceps, use of, as a cause of idiocy, 48

Fraser, Professor, anæmia following thyroid feeding, 97

Frere, Bartle, 20

Froude, 77

Gambetta, the brain of, 46

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