The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein.

  • Waldstein, Louis, 1853-1915.
Date:
1905
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    periment, and to Miss Annie M. Sullivan, her teacher, to whose tuition is wholly due the awakening and development of the unique in- telligence of the wonderful young woman, for the interest she evinced in the object and the help she extended so freely toward its accom- plishment. Of course I cannot speak too highly of the gentleness and patience with which Miss Helen Keller herself met me. The serious illness that threatened her life at the time left the child of nineteen months with only those organs of sense unimpaired which we are accustomed to regard as the lower senses in man, — those of touch, of taste, and of smell. Her high degree of intelligence to-day — which enables her to converse with rare thoughtfulness and understanding not only in English but also in German and French, and to form a judgment quite her own of her sur- roundings, of events, and of persons — must have been entirely formed by impressions re- ceived through them, and, we may assume, by those that date back into babyhood.