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Excerpt from: Instinct Not Predominant In Idiocy The idiot is not a nondescript animal, midway or somewhere in point of development between some lower order of beings and the human race. He has a human origin. He is a human being, -- abnormal, defective, incapable, to a greater or less degree, depending upon the imperfection of the nervous system or its failure in functional activity.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Instinct Not Predominant In Idiocy | |
| Creator: | H.B. Wilbur (author) | |
| Date: | 1880 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | Proceedings of the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Persons | |
| Publisher: | J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.135-144 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Charles Darwin; Children; Cognitive Disability; Diagnoses & Diseases; Doctors; Edouard Seguin; Educational Institutions; Hervey B. Wilbur; Idiocy; Institution For Imbeciles & Idiots; Institutions; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; New York; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Nomenclature; Professional Associations; Religion; Sexuality; Social Welfare & Communities | |
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