Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry / by Smith Ely Jelliffe and William A. White.

  • Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 1866-1945.
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[1919], ©1919
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Credit: Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry / by Smith Ely Jelliffe and William A. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lymphaticus, hyper- and hypothyroidism, dysgenitalism (hyper- genitalism), dyspituitarism (including dystrophia adiposogenital is), dvsadrenalism, and pluriglandular imbalances. Chondrodystrophy and micromelia may be associated with mental defect, although many of these deformed individuals are bright and witty, for example the court fools of olden times. There are many other conditions* which may have some grade of mental defect associated such as cerebral tumors, spinal paralysis, Westphal-Strumpell pseudosclerosis, Friedreich’s ataxia,- facial hemi- dvstrophy, etc. Fig. 470.—In center a moron, aged twenty-four years; mentally, ten years. At right, moron, aged eleven years; mentally, eight years. At left, imbecile, aged nine years, mentally, six years. It should be remembered, too, that the child may have a neurosis or a psychoneurosis, and these conditions may produce conduct dis¬ orders which show a moral obliquity which, if they are not carefully investigated, may too easily be classified as due to defective conditions. Such psychic states are susceptible of psychoanalysis, and often of cure. Psychopathic Constitution.—There are many anomalies of char¬ acter which, because normal or usual to the individual, cannot be said to properly constitute a psychosis, but because they lead to a rat he i inefficient type of adjustment of the individual to his environment, and because persons exhibiting these peculiarities often become actively disordered, may be considered as borderland conditions. Something of the hysteric and epileptic characters has already