...idiocy, and devote it to the language of medicine. Idiocy is not a disease, but a condition in which the intellectual faculties are never manifested ;...developed sufficiently to enable the idiot to acquire sach an amount of knowledge, as persons of his own age, and placed in similar circumstances with himself,...

...of mental derangement we have considered. It has been defined by Esquirol as a " condition in which the intellectual faculties are never manifested, or...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving." It is often congenital, and then doubtless is associated with some imperfect organization ; but it...

...is, strictly speaking, what Esquirol defined it to be — unot a disease, but a condition in which the intellectual faculties are never manifested, or...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving." A sad and piteous spectacle, indeed, are these blighted waifs, making up a great army of helplessness,...

...is, strictly speaking, what Esquirol defined it to be — " not a disease, but a condition in which the intellectual faculties are never manifested, or...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving." A sad and piteous spectacle, indeed, are these blighted waifs, making up a great army of helplessness,...

...usually associated with some cranial malformation. Idiocy may also be described as a condition in which the intellectual faculties are never manifested, or...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving. This weakness of the intellect and arrest of the psychical development usually depends upon a cerebral...

...it to a congenital defect." " Idiocy," he observes, " is not a disease, S but a condition in which the intellectual faculties are never / manifested...capable of receiving. Idiocy commences with life, or at that age which precedes the development of the intellectual and affective faculties, which are from...

...restricted it to a congenital defect." " Idiocy," he observes, " is not a disease, but a condition in which the intellectual faculties are never manifested ;...capable of receiving. Idiocy commences with life, or at that age which precedes the development of the intellectual and affective faculties, which are from...

...derangement we have considered. It has been defined by Esquirol as a " condition in which the intellectunl faculties are never manifested, or have never been...circumstances •with himself, are capable of receiving." It is often congenital, and then doubtless is associated with some imperfect organization ; but it...

...perpetual infirmity, is non compos mentis." Idiocy is a condition in which the intellectual faculties have never been developed sufficiently to enable the...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving. This latter is essentially Esquirol's definition of idiocy. The progress of modern science is such,...

...is, strictly speaking, what Esquirol defined it to be — " not a disease, bat a condition in which the intellectual faculties are never manifested, or...developed sufficiently to enable the idiot to acquire ,-m-ii an amount of knowledge as persons of his own age, and placed in similar circumstances with himself,...