Mental Deficiency (Amentia)
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This is a valuable and interesting book not only to the alienist physician, and the general practitioner, but also to the statesman and to all interested in sociological questions. The volume is founded on the large experience which Dr. Tredgold has had in various Asylums and Homes for the Feeble minded. Full use too has been made of the mass of materials to be found in recently issued voluminous Report of the R<>37al Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded. The volume begins with an introduction on
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