 They are of weak and defective intellect, though excessively cunning ; and not a few of them are weak-minded and imbecile. The women are ugly in features, and without grace of expression or movement. The children, who become juvenile criminals, do not...  The Lancet - Page 1871872Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1872 - 796 pages
...epilepsy. They are WOTABILIA. Beview, Sept. 1, 187J. of -weak and defective intellect, though exceedingly cunning ; and not a few of them are weak-minded and imbecile. The women are ugly in feature, without grace or expression or movement. The children who become juvenile criminals do not... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1873 - 388 pages
...moral imbeciles, it is the class of habitual criminals. All observers who have made them their study agree that they constitute a morbid or degenerate...deficient in the power of attention and application, have bad memories, and make slow progress in learning ; many of them are weak in mind and body, and some... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Criminal liability - 1874 - 350 pages
...defective intellect, though excessively cunning, and not a few of them are weak-minded and imbecile.t The women are ugly in features, and without grace...deficient in the power of attention and application, have bad memories, and make slow progress in learning ; many of them are weak in mind and body, and some... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Insanity - 1876 - 348 pages
...sluggish, deficient in vital energy, and sometimes afflicted with epilepsy. As a class, they are of mean and defective intellect, though excessively cunning,...deficient in the power of attention and application, have bad memories, and make slow progress in learning ; many of them are weak in mind and body, and some... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Medicine, Psychosomatic - 1884 - 298 pages
...peculiar low physical and mental characteristics. They are scrofulous, often deformed, with badly-formed, angular heads, are stupid, sluggish, deficient in...of them are weak-minded and imbecile. The women are ngly in features, and without grace of expression or movement. The children who become juvenile criminals,... | |
 | Georg von Giźycki - Ethics - 1889 - 324 pages
...sluggish, deficient in vital energy, and sometimes afflicted wi;h epilepsy. As a class they are of mean and defective intellect, though excessively cunning,...and not a few of them are weak-minded and imbecile." And a physician who has had much experience with criminals, declared, as Maudsley quotes : " In all... | |
 | Georg von Gizycki - Ethics - 1889 - 592 pages
...sluggish, deficient in vital energy, and sometimes afflicted wi:h epilepsy. As a class they are of mean and defective intellect, though excessively cunning,...and not a few of them are weak-minded and imbecile." And a physician who has had much experience with criminals, declared, as Maudsley quotes : " In all... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Insanity (Law) - 1890 - 300 pages
...peculiar low physical and mental characteristics. They are scrofulous, often deformed, with badly-formed, angular heads, are stupid, sluggish, deficient in...deficient in the power of attention and application, have bad memories, and make slow progress in learning; many of them are weak in mind and body, and some... | |
 | Mary Olmstead Stanton - Physiognomy - 1890 - 776 pages
...badly formed angular heads, are stupid, sluggish, deficient in vital energy, and sometimes epileptic. They are of weak and defective intellect, though excessively...deficient in the power of attention and application ; have bad memories, and make slow progress in learning; many of them are weak in mind and body, and some... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Insanity (Law) - 1892 - 352 pages
...sluggish, deficient in vital energy, and sometimes afflicted with epilepsy. As a class, they are of mean and defective intellect, though excessively cunning,...of expression or movement. The children, who become juvenile-criminals, do not evince the educational aptitude of the higher industrial classes : they... | |
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