The West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports
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tual impairment, are rather displacements than diminutions of capacity, and that besides, perhaps, securing the survival of the fittest, such manipulations are better borne by the young of uncivilized than of civilized tribes, he shows that the greater prevalence of insanity among civilized nations is due to the greater cranial capacity as shown by Drs. Barnard Davis and Pritchard ; while it has been proved by the late Sir J. Simpson, and confirmed by Dr. Farr (22nd Annual Report), that male children, whose heads are larger and more liable to compression during parturition, have a much greater liability to mental disease.
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