 | Clinical medicine - 1922 - 390 pages
...own living, but is capable of guarding himself against common physical dangers. An idiot as: A person so deeply defective in mind from birth, or from an early age, that he is unable to guard himself against common physical dangers. Tregold defines "Amentia," which... | |
 | People with mental disabilities - 1914 - 192 pages
...begins by defining defectives as follows: The following classes of persons who are mentally defective shall be deemed to be defectives within the meaning...to guard themselves against common physical dangers ; 120 -H 12 72 144 36 108 120 24 96 60 84 132 48 12 + or — 8 8 58 48 98 118 18 78 38 68 88 28 108... | |
 | Great Britain Commissions For The Care And Control Of The Feeble Minded - 1908 - 564 pages
...decay of their faculties, are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs. (3) "Idiots," ie, persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or from an early age that they are unable to guard themselves from common physical dangers, such as, in the case of young... | |
 | Alfred Frank Tredgold - Brain - 1908 - 480 pages
...most convenient one, and this we shall accordingly use. The idiot is therefore denned as " a person so deeply defective in mind from birth, or from an early age, that he is unable to guard himself against common physical dangers." Accepting this as the criterion,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1909 - 566 pages
...down certain principles, of which the following are the most important. Definitions. ''Idiots" — ie, persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or from an early age that they are unable to guard themselves from common physical dangers, such as, in the case of young... | |
 | Ralph Henry Crowley - 1916 - 508 pages
...managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so. Idiots : persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or...guard themselves against common physical dangers. The term " moral imbecile " should be limited to persons " who from an early age display some permanent... | |
 | Anglican Communion - 1910 - 778 pages
...Royal Commission of Great Britain, we may divide these unfortunates into four classes. la) Idiote, ie, persons so deeply defective in mind from birth, or from an early age, that they are unable to guard themselves from common physical dangers. lb) Imbeciles, ie, persons who... | |
 | George Archdall Reid, Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid - Heredity - 1910 - 570 pages
...Physicians to the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded. 766. " ' Idiots,' ie persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or from an early age that they are unable to guard themselves from common physical dangers, such as, in the case of young... | |
 | George Edward Shuttleworth, William Alexander Potts - Children - 1910 - 300 pages
...the Feeble-minded the two following definitions, and these the Commission have adopted : Idiots are " persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or from an early age that they are unable to guard themselves from common physical dangers such as, in the case of young... | |
 | Thomas Smith Clouston - Insanity - 1911 - 402 pages
...viz., "Idiots" ("Low Grade Amentia") the Commission adopts the following definition ; they are : " Persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or from an early age that they are unable to guard themselves from any physical danger, such as, in the case of young children,... | |
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Idiots; that is to say, persons so deeply defective in mind from birth or from an early age as to be unable to guard themselves against common physical dangers... 
