Experimental Studies of Mental Defectives

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Excerpt from Experimental Studies of Mental Defectives: A Critique of the Binet-Simon Tests and a Contribution, to the Psychology of EpilepsyThese results will appeal to schoolmen and to physicians and alienists for two reasons. In the first place, they have added to our knowledge of the men tal status of the epileptic. Epilepsy has long re mained a little-understood disease. We are told that some men who have attained eminence have been epileptic, e. G., Julius Caesar, Mohammed, and prob ably St. Paul, to cite conspicuous instances, yet the great majority of those af¿icted with the malady fail to reach normal mental maturity, and fall, as Dr. Wallin shows, into the upper group of the feeble minded, now known as morons. These children re semble more the typical laggard of the public schools than the typical feeble-minded child, and they re quire special educational treatment. For this reason the more we can discover as to the psychology of the epileptic, the more successful will be our educational measures.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.