Backward and Feebleminded Children
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Backward and Feebleminded Children. By Edmund Burke Huey. Baltimore Warwick and York, 1912. Pp. xiii-j-221. Illus. "Years ago at Heidelberg," writes Dr. Huey, "Professor Kraepelin told me, with enthusiasm which I well remember, how much he thought might come from an intensive clinical study of a group of some thirty school children. On my way to Lincoln, Dr. Adolf Meyer encouraged me to undertake some such study in the Illinois institution. The results of a practice try-out of the plan are here before the reader." Thirty-four borderland cases studied in the State School and Colony at Lincoln, Illinois, and one additional case from the Johns Hopkins Dispensary service, are presented clinically by Dr. Huey in chapters III and IV of his book, chapters I and II being taken up with an introduction and a discussion of classi-
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The Feebleminded in the State of Missouri 1Delivered before the Missouri Conference for Social Welfare, Columbia, November, 1916.
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