...intellectual development was arrested owing to mal-nutrition or disease of the nervous centres occurring before birth or before the evolution of the mental faculties in childhood, and is usually associated with some cranial malformation. Idiocy may also be described as a condition...

...indirectly, a good deal. " Idiocy " he defines as '• mental deficiency, or extreme stupidity, depending on malnutrition or disease of the nervous centres, occurring...the evolution of the mental faculties in childhood ". The vagueness of this definition is only partially reduced in the subsequent exposition. The "causes"...

...anecdotes, curious information, and not a little useful wisdom. Dr. Ireland considers that " idiocy is mental deficiency, or extreme stupidity, depending...the evolution of the mental faculties in childhood." " Idiocy bears much resemblance to the ordinary condition of infancy. In idiots the mental state may...

...The following definition seems to include both the popular and scientific use of the term. Idiocy is mental deficiency, or extreme stupidity, depending...the evolution of the mental faculties in childhood. The word imbecility1 is generally used to denote a less decided degree of mental incapacity. Thus,...

...qualification is what we must logically aim at. If, on the other hand, we define idiocy to be mental deficiency depending upon mal-nutrition or disease of the nervous...the evolution of the mental faculties in childhood, we look at it in a different manner. We have arrived at some facts in studying idiocy in connection...

...at. If, on the other hand, we define idiocy to be mental deficiency depending upon mal-nutrition br disease of the nervous centres, occurring either before...the evolution of the mental faculties in childhood, we look at it in a different manner. We have arrived at some facts in studying idiocy in connection...

...mental power, and lacks the capacity to co-ordinate his brain functions. Dr. Ireland defines idiocy as "mental deficiency, or extreme stupidity, depending...mental faculties in childhood. Imbecility is generally applied to that condition in which the mental incapacity is less marked than it is in idiocy. When...

...mental power, and lacks the capacity to co-ordinate his brain functions. Dr. Ireland defines idiocy as "mental deficiency, or extreme stupidity, depending...mal-nutrition or disease of the nervous centres, occurring cither before birth or before the evolution of the mental faculties in childhood." Imbecility is generally...

...primary mental enfeeblemcnt, but rather to glance at a few of the most typical varieties. Ireland's1 definition is that '' idiocy is a mental deficiency...malnutrition or disease of the nervous centres, occurring cither before birth or before the evolution of the menial faculties in childhood." " Imbecility is...

...IDIOCY may be defined as mental deficiency or extreme stupidity, dependent upon disease or malnutrition of the nervous centres occurring either before birth...the evolution of the mental faculties in childhood. An idiot is a being who becomes irretrievably defective in mental power, and is incapable of co-ordinating...