INDEX.
Reading edition
Affleck, Dr., 93
Alcoholic stimulants as a factor in the genesis of idiocy, 26
abuse of, in Sweden, 29
effects of, in France, 31
Sir B.W. Richardson on, 30
Anæmia, as the result of thyroid feeding, 97
Anderson, Mrs. Garrett, on Sex in Education, 37
Andriessen, on the cerebral convolutions of idiots, 51
Animals, relation between their intelligence and the size of their brain, 49
Association of idiots with the insane, a disadvantage to both classes, 19
Aveyron, the savage of the, 18
Beach, Fletcher, 25, 27, 28
Besant, Sir Walter, 76
Birth, injuries of the head at, 48
Blood, analysis of, in thyroid feeding, 96
supply of, varies in the two sexes, 37
Bourneville, on Craniectomy, 101
Brain, average weight of, in men and women, 46
chemistry of the, 52
difference between that of a senior wrangler and that of an idiot, 43
difference in the two sexes, 37
microscopical appearance of, in idiots, 51
of gorilla and ourang-outang, 75
size and weight, in proportion to intellectual power, 43
structure of, in men of genius, 44
Bramwell, Byrom, 93, 98
Browne, Sir J. Crichton, on Sex in Education, 36
Browne, Sir Thomas, 79
Bruce, Lewis C., on thyroid feeding, 95
Burton-Fanning, 94
Caird, Mrs. Mona, 39
Causes of idiocy, 23
Cicero, 69
Classification, 17
Consanguine marriages, 32
Convolutions of the brain in men of genius, and in those of low culture, 45
in idiots, 51
Couerbe, on the rôle of phosphorus in the brain, 52
Craniectomy, 101
statistics of, 103
Cranium, early closure of the sutures of, 101
Cranium, form of the, and its connection with idiocy, 43
Cross, Lord, on habitual drunkards, 31
Crossley House, 107
Cuvier, brain of, 46
Dahl, Ludwig, 25, 29
Dana, on Craniectomy, 102
Definition of idiocy, 15
Dunlop, 93
Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, discussion at, 92
Educational Overpressure, on, 35
has induced suicide in children, 41
Esquirol, 85, 118
Faculty a, must not be confounded with its material organ, 63
Forceps, use of, as a cause of idiocy, 48
Fraser, Professor, anæmia following thyroid feeding, 97
Frere, Bartle, 20
Froude, 77
Gambetta, the brain of, 46
Genius, a neurosis, 53
its relation to cerebral structure, 44
Goethe, 69
Greenfield, Professor, 93
Gynagogues, 40
Hammond, G.M., 93
Hammond, Prof. W.A., 49, 60
Heredity, its rôle in idiocy, 25
Horsley, Victor, Prof., 90, 100
Howe, 26, 33
Humphry, Sir George, on Craniectomy, 102
Idiocy, causes of, 23
classification of, 17
definition of, 15
its bearing on Evolution, 72
moral aspect of, 117
pathological anatomy of, 43
should not be confounded with insanity, 19
social aspect of, 116
Idiot, the, description of, 22
his association with the insane a disadvantage, 19
his claims on society, 12, 114
phosphorus in the brain of, 52
possesses the tripartite nature of man, 120
Intellectual differences between men and women, 36
Intemperance of parents, a factor in idiocy, 26
Ireland, W.W., 18, 25, 34, 42, 47, 90, 103
Janet, Paul, on phosphorus in the brain, 53
Kerlin, 27
Kirkby, 91
Kocher, 90
Ladies' Association, 108
Langdon-Down, 17, 30, 33, 48
Lassaigne, 53
Lelut, on the cranium of idiots, 44
Lewes, G.H., 63
Lewi, 93
Lunatic Asylums, not adapted for idiots, 19
Lundie, 93
Lunier, 31
Luys, on the brain of idiots, 51
Lynn Linton, Mrs., on women's sphere of usefulness, 38
Massachussetts report on idiocy, 26
Matter and mind, 55
Mierzejewski, on the brain of idiots, 58
Millard, W., 78
Mind, independent of its material organ, 66
Mingazzini, on the cerebral convolutions, 44
Moleschott, 52
Moreau, on hereditary predisposition, 25
his ideas on genius, 53
Murray, G., 90, 93
New York Academy of Medicine, discussion at, 93
Norway, prevalence of idiocy in, 28
Odium theologicum, 73
Parental intemperance, 27
Parker, Rushton, 99
Pathological anatomy of idiocy, 43
Permanent Endowment Fund, 82
Phosphorus, its relation to intellectual vigour, 52
Plato, 22, 64
Pneuma, an attribute of the idiot, 71
Psychological Congress in Paris, 58
Richardson, Sir B.W., on the effects of alcohol, 30
Saeger, 87
Schiff, 90
Science and Theology should not be antagonistic, 74
Séguin, 15, 35
Sex in Education, on, 36
Shakespeare, his definition of idiocy, 15
Shuttleworth, 28, 33, 50, 87
Sidney, 80
Strahan, 41
Sweden, alcoholic abuse in, 31
Telford-Smith, on sporadic cretinism, 99
Thomson, J., 93, 99
Thucidides, 21
Thyroid feeding, 90
psychical effects of, 100
Toussenel, 29
Toxic idiocy, 28
Treatment of idiocy, 81
medico-pedagogic, 102
satisfactory results of, at the Eastern Counties' Asylum, 88
Trousseau, on consanguine marriages, 35
Turner, J.J. C., 33, 117
Vacherot, 58
Voisin, Auguste, 51, 95
Wagner, 45
Westcott, 41
Westfelt, on the influence of alcohol on progeny and race, 31
Wilbur, 28
Wilmath, 44
Winn, 67