The Hand Book of Idiotcy, EtcW. S. Orr & Company, 1856 - 72 страници |
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Страница 7 - Hence it comes to pass that a man who is very sober, and of a right understanding in all other things, may in one particular be as frantic as any in Bedlam; if either by any sudden very strong impression, or long fixing his fancy upon one sort of thoughts, incoherent ideas have been cemented together so powerfully, as to remain united.
Страница 8 - In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, — that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them; but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.
Страница 7 - ... mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. For by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deductions from them. Thus you shall find a distracted man fancying himself a king, with a right inference require suitable attendance, respect and obedience : others, who have thought themselves made of glass, have used the caution necessary to preserve such brittle bodies.
Страница 7 - In fine, the defect in naturals seems to proceed from want of quickness, activity, and motion in the intellectual faculties, whereby they are deprived of reason; whereas madmen, on the other side, seem to suffer by the other extreme. For they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning; but, having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. For by the violence of their imaginations having taken...
Страница 7 - ... nothing could be done for him, and he must always remain an object of pitiable isolation. But, a closer study of the subject has now demonstrated that the cultivation of such senses and instincts as the idiot is seen to possess, will, besides frequently developing others that are latent within him but obscured, so brighten those glimmering lights, as immensely to improve his condition, both with reference to himself and to society. Consequently there is no greater justification for abandoning...
Страница 6 - But in all these cases the main idea of an idiot would be of a hopeless, irreclaimable, unimprovable being. And if he be further recalled as under restraint in a workhouse or lunatic asylum, he will still come upon the imagination as wallowing in the lowest depths of degradation and neglect: a miserable monster, whom nobody may put to death, but whom every one must wish dead, and be distressed to see alive. Until within a few years, it was generally assumed, even by those who were not given to hasty...
Страница 7 - For they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths; and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. For, by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deductions from them.
Страница 21 - I may remark, that infiltration of the pia mater was observed in ninety-two cases. Turgidity of the blood-vessels existed in eighty-nine ; fluid was effused in the ventricles in sixty-seven ; effusion had taken place at the base of the brain in thirty-nine. There was thickening and opacity of the arachnoid coat in thirty-two. Bloody points were observed on the cut surfaces of the medullary substance in twenty-seven. The colour of the brain appeared changed in nineteen ; and in seventeen cases, blood...
Страница 6 - The popular notion of an Idiot would probably be found to vary very little, essentially, in different places, however modified by local circumstances. To the traveller in France or Italy, the name recalls a vacant creature all in rags, gibbering and blinking in the sun with a distorted face, and led about as a possession and a stock-in-trade by some phenomenon of filth and ugliness in the form of an old woman. In association with Switzerland, it suggests a horrible being, seated at a...
Страница 11 - perhaps the sole real agent in every movement in the universe ;" and remarks, that " the development of forms according to their generic, specific, and individual diversities, not less in the vegetable than in the animal world, can only be accounted for by ascribing it to the universal energy and wisdom of the Creator.