Talented Imbeciles
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The differential diagnosis of the type of feeblemindedness known as imbecility is by no means an artisan's job. No foot rule, scale, or point system has been devised or will ever be devised that will relieve the clinician of long, patient, and discriminating analysis in arriving at a diagnosis. An individual may be diagnosed or classified as an imbecile on the mental scale, on the intellectual scale, or on both. The purpose of this paper is to present three cases in which an analytic diagnosis has been made. Two of these
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