Idiocy : and its treatment by the physiological method / by Edward Seguin.

  • Seguin, Edward, 1812-1880.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Idiocy : and its treatment by the physiological method / by Edward Seguin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    develop the noblest sentiments of man, Friendship, Grati- tude, love of Home, and Devotion to one's Country. Where is the artist who will paint for the asylum of Syra- cuse the starting of the two volunteers and the dying return of Piper home? Those pictures would be as touching and appropriate there as is the masterpiece of Sir Benjamin West in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. It would be easy to present more of these observations, since we have kindly received more of them from the Superintendents of the schools of New York, Pennsylva- nia, Kentucky, and Barre, Mass., or more are to be found in periodicals. But they would not offer themselves naturally as illustrations of some points of doctrine of the present book, as those here selected are intended to do closely ; the latter are numerous enough to represent idiocy in its most important aspects; and incomplete enough, particularly our own, to make them stand like a stimulus for the friends of idiots to do better. Progress is in proportion to the thoroughness of observation. 29