...to me advisable, to substitute for it, the word idiocy, and devote it to the language of medicine. Idiocy is not a disease, but a condition in which...developed sufficiently to enable the idiot to acquire sach an amount of knowledge, as persons of his own age, and placed in similar circumstances with himself,...

...than any of the phases of mental derangement we have considered. It has been defined by Esquirol as a " condition in which the intellectual faculties...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving." It is often congenital, and then doubtless is associated with some imperfect organization ; but it...

...It will suffice to tell you that idiocy is, strictly speaking, what Esquirol defined it to be — " not a disease, but a condition in which the intellectual...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving." A sad and piteous spectacle, indeed, are these blighted waifs, making up a great army of helplessness,...

...It will suffice to tell you that idiocy is, strictly speaking, what Esquirol defined it to be — " not a disease, but a condition in which the intellectual...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving." A sad and piteous spectacle, indeed, are these blighted waifs, making up a great army of helplessness,...

...will suffice to tell you that idiocy is, strictly speaking, what Esquirol defined it to be — unot a disease, but a condition in which the intellectual...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving." A sad and piteous spectacle, indeed, are these blighted waifs, making up a great army of helplessness,...

...childhood, and is usually associated with some cranial malformation. Idiocy may also be described as a condition in which the intellectual faculties are...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving. This weakness of the intellect and arrest of the psychical development usually depends upon a cerebral...

...defined the term, and, unlike Pinel, restricted it to a congenital defect." " Idiocy," he observes, " is not a disease, but a condition in which the intellectual...capable of receiving. Idiocy commences with life, or at that age which precedes the development of the intellectual and affective faculties, which are from...

...unlike Pinel, restricted it to a congenital defect." " Idiocy," he observes, " is not a disease, S but a condition in which the intellectual faculties...capable of receiving. Idiocy commences with life, or at that age which precedes the development of the intellectual and affective faculties, which are from...

...derangement we have considered. It has been defined by Esquirol as a " condition in which the intellectunl faculties are never manifested, or have never been...circumstances •with himself, are capable of receiving." It is often congenital, and then doubtless is associated with some imperfect organization ; but it...

...perpetual infirmity, is non compos mentis." Idiocy is a condition in which the intellectual faculties have never been developed sufficiently to enable the...circumstances with himself, are capable of receiving. This latter is essentially Esquirol's definition of idiocy. The progress of modern science is such,...