Fanny E. Langdon

John Langdon Down (1828 – 1896)

When John Down was 18 years old, he had some kind of mystical experience. He met a girl that appeared so peculiar, that he felt sorry for her and, consciously or unconsciously, would spend his whole life searching for this phenomenon. He decided to study Medicine, became the director of the largest “Asylum for Idiots” in England and wrote articles and books about the thing that fascinated him s...

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Dr Langdon Down (1828-1896) and 'mongolism'.

John Langdon Down was born at Torpoint in Cornwall in 1828. After local schooling he .:: .!.i:.. became apprenticed at the age of 14 for four ;.i.l.l years to his father, a local apothecary. Then, wishing to become a scientist, in 1846 he entered a laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society in London. There he won a prize for organic chemistry and also came into contact with 2A! Michael Faraday. ...

Writing the unspeakable: Fanny Burney's mastectomy and the fictive body.

John Langdon Down: the man and the message.

John Langdon Down was the son of a village grocer. Born in Torpoint, Cornwall, in 1828, he was the 6th child of religious parents. He worked in the family business until he was 18 years old and he then qualified as a pharmacist before ultimately entering medical school at the London Hospital. He won numerous medals and prizes and immediately after taking his medical degree he was appointed medi...