Feeble-mindedness: Its Causes and ConsequencesMacmillan, 1914 - 599 من الصفحات "Report on work done at the Vineland research laboratory during the past five years."-Pref. |
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1ST WIFE 2ND HUSBAND 2ND WIFE Accident Group affectionate alcoholic Almshouse altho American born American parents APOPLEXY Assigned cause BABY basketry birth brain brother CANCER cheerful child color condition congenital convulsions count cousin died in infancy diphtheria disease duplex epilepsy epileptic errand F INF F Sx fact family chart shows family history feeble feeble-minded feeble-minded children feeble-minded person four fundamental groups germ cell girl GOITRE hereditary feeble-mindedness Hereditary Group heredity high grade housework ILLEGITIMATE imbecile improved INF INF insanity Institution intelligence Kallikak Family kindergarten learned low grade marasmus married maternal matings measles meningitis mental defect Mentality 9 miscarriages Mongolian moron mother American nervous neuropathic ancestry Neuropathic Group normal children obedient paralysis Probably Hereditary scarlet fever seems sexually immoral simplex sister spasms spinal meningitis Sx F syphilis talk thoroly thru Total tuberculosis TWINS undetermined Vineland whooping-cough worker write
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الصفحة 533 - Those who survey the work done in this department will arrive at the conviction that, among all the numerous experiments made, not one has been carried out to such an extent and in such a way as to make it possible to determine the number of different forms under which the offspring of hybrids appear, or to arrange these forms with certainty according to their separate generations, or definitely to ascertain their statistical relations.
الصفحة 4 - Is the mildest degree of mental defect, and the feeble-minded person is ' one who is capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, but is incapable from mental defect existing from birth, or from an early age, (a) of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows; or (b) of managing himself and his affairs with ordinary prudence.
الصفحة 16 - Some of the women seen at the Detention House were so under the influence of drugs or alcohol as to make it impossible to study their mental condition. Others at the Detention House and in the prisons had used alcohol to excess for years, and in the time available it was impossible to differentiate between alcoholic deterioration and mental defect. These drunken, alcoholic and drug-stupefied women were all recorded as normal.
الصفحة 7 - Goddard estimates that from 25 per cent, to 50 per cent, of the people in our prisons are mentally defective and incapable of managing their affairs with ordinary prudence...
الصفحة 437 - One hundred sixty-four or 54 per cent of the remaining 300 histories show other feebleminded persons in such numbers or in such relation to the individual case studied as to leave no doubt of the hereditary character of the mental defect. In these cases it is evident from the charts themselves that we are dealing •with a condition of mind or brain which is transmitted as regularly and surely as color of hair or eyes.
الصفحة 16 - The 135 women designated as normal as a class were of distinctly inferior intelligence. More time for study of these women, more complete histories of their life in the community and opportunity for more elaborate psychological tests might verify the belief of the examiners that many of them also were feeble-minded or insane. The mental age of the 135 women rated as normal, as measured by the Binet scale, was as follows : — 17 had the mentality of a 12-year-old child.
الصفحة 492 - Everything seems to indicate that alcoholism is only a symptom; that it for the most part occurs in families where there is some form of neurotic taint, especially feeble-mindedness. The percentage of our alcoholics that are feeble-minded is very great. Indeed, one may say without fear of dispute, that more people are alcoholic because they are feeble-minded than vice versa.
الصفحة 2 - ... and others in which they cannot be so considered. They have intelligence enough to live in a certain environment and care for themselves, but in a more complex social group it is impossible for them to function properly. * * * * It is probable that it is this relativity that has disturbed us, and has led us to go so far without seeing the real issue. In other words the persons who constitute our social problems are of a type that in the past and under simpler environments have seemed responsible...
الصفحة 514 - This is necessarily true since the feeble-minded lacks one or the other of the factors essential to a moral life — an understanding of right and wrong, and the power of control.