Abnormal Children (nervous, Mischievous, Precocious, and Backward): A Book for Parents, Teachers, and Medical Officers of SchoolsK. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, 1916 - 224 pages |
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abnormal acquired activity adult affected appears arrested development attention backward children become boys brain capacity cause character childhood chorea condition convulsions deficiency disease disposition dream early emotional energy epilepsy excitement exist faculties fear feeble-minded feelings frequently frontal eminences frontal lobes girls habits head Headaches healthy heredity hydrocephalus ideas idiocy idiots imbeciles impressionable impulses inches infant influence inherited insanity Instinct intel intellectual intelligence irritability kleptomaniac lack manifest measure MELANCHOLIA memory menstruation ment mental defect mental development mental powers metic microcephalic mind months moral education morbid mother motive movements natural nervous child nervous children nervous system ness neuropathic neurosis Night terrors normal observation occiput organisation parents parietal eminences passions patient period persons physical posterior precocious propensities puberty punishment reason recognise sions skull sleep sometimes somnambulism stammering suggestion talent tendency things timidity tion treatment uncon usually weak weak-minded youth
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Page 200 - I'll raise, While thus I quit my bed of rest, Creation's Lord to praise. Barbauld. REFLECTIONS. TJ*VERY wrong propensity may be finally subdued or considerably corrected ; every right one may be assisted by additional motives and carried on to yet higher perfection. Even in the worst characters some capacity for virtuous improvement, of which no vestige has yet been observed, may be discovered or drawn- forth ; and upon the best, restraints may be employed against vicious inclinations, which, from...
Page 182 - Further, it becomes manifest that, in common with the public at large, those in authority assume that the goodness of education is to be tested by the quantity of knowledge acquired. Whereas it is to be much more truly tested by the capacity for using knowledge — by the extent to which the knowledge gained has been turned into faculty, so as to be available both for the purposes of life and for the purposes of independent investigation.
Page 36 - There is no will power and no trace of the faculty of initiation. They have no power of expressing themselves by means of articulate language, but some of them succeed in making known their desires by certain signs, cries, or sounds, understood only by those in immediate attendance upon them.
Page 10 - Some of the children of such parents are generally idiotic, epileptic, dumb, or scrofulous, and the parents marvel whence came the imperfection. It may be, in some cases, that the parents, and possibly the grandparents, of the unfortunate children, have not up till that time displayed any outward evidence of the tendency to disease which they have inherited and handed on to their descendants, and not looking farther back, the parents boldly assert that such a thing as insanity, epilepsy, scrofula,...
Page 50 - ... in commonsense. Listlessness, inattention, and a tendency to become absorbed in subjective thought — commonly called 'day-dreaming' — are frequent symptoms of their intellectual feebleness, in addition to the symptoms which result from imperfect cerebral development. In a certain sense it may be said of them that they do not grow old with their years, and when they approach adolescence they do so without any appreciable increase of responsibility. They remain childish, easily satisfied with...
Page 23 - ... of the body and of its carriage and bearing; of the firmness of the tissues; of the presence of subcutaneous fat; of the condition and process of the development of the muscular system; of the condition of the skin and the redness of the mucous membranes ; of the nervous and muscular system as expressed in listlessness or alertness, in apathy or keenness ; of the condition of the various systems of the body, and, speaking generally, of the relative balance and co-ordination of the functions of...
Page 19 - Crichton-Browne gives it as his opinion that where abortion " is instrumentally attempted without success, injury may be done to the head of the foetus, and where drugs are used, these may disastrously interfere with its nutrition and growth." It must, however, be emphasized that cases of amentia directly resulting from any of these causes are relatively rare, and that in the large majority of defectives such physical conditions of the mother have a contributory...
Page 10 - ... of a common grandparent who was insane and of an insane stock. Here the cousins are certain to have inherited more or less of the insane diathesis. Even if the taint has been largely diluted in their case by the wise, or, more likely, fortunate marriages of their bloodrelated parents...
Page 90 - The intense egotism of these persons makes them utterly regardless of the feelings and rights of others. Everybody and everything must give way to them. Their comfort and convenience are to be secured though every one else is made uncomfortable or unhappy, and sometimes they display positive cruelty in their treatment of persons who come in contact with them.
Page 183 - Cambridge alone give more than £35,000 a year in scholarships to undergraduates, and I suppose the case is much the same at Oxford. The result of this is that preparation for these scholarships dominates the education of the great majority of the cleverer boys who come to these universities, and indeed, in some quarters, it seems to be held that the chief duty of a schoolmaster, and the best test of his efficiency, is to make his boys get scholarships. The preparation for the scholarship too often...