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Title: Nervous and mental diseases
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Church, Archibald, b. 1861 Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938, joint author
Subjects: Nervous system Mental illness
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, W.B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 326.—Two epileptic idiots IDIOCY. 873 extent of our latest knowledge. Almost any of tlie types of thedivisions here made use of may be congenital or acquired. The termidiocy itself is generic, including as it does all degrees of mentalimpairment in early life. But the variations in degree or intensity ofthe mental weakness are indicated by the expressions : idiocy, for thelowest degree of mental disability ; imhecility, for a higher degree, andfeeble-mindediiess, for the cases of idiocy in which the psychic facultieshave their highest development. There is some confusion in literatureas to the exact limitation and application of these degrees. Sollier hasmade an attempt to distinguish idiocy and imbecility, but his definitionof imbecility is not tenable, in the opinion of the writer, for hedescribes a certain small class of imbeciles as representative of thewhole order. It is to be remembered that in each of these degrees wehave many gradations, and the entire series, from abso

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