The Dental cosmos . Seguin entitledThe Psycho-Physiological Training of an Idiotic Hand, reprintedfrom the Archives of Medicine for October, 1879, and represent first achild at six months of age, healthy ; then at eighteen months, afterconvulsions ; next at five and a half years, with idiocy fully developed ;and lastly, after one year of manual training. The photographs areso characteristic and in the portrayal of mentality so self-explanatoryas to need no further comment. When such astonishing results in mental development are possibleby manual training alone, where a normal intelligence is w
The Dental cosmos . Seguin entitledThe Psycho-Physiological Training of an Idiotic Hand, reprintedfrom the Archives of Medicine for October, 1879, and represent first achild at six months of age, healthy ; then at eighteen months, afterconvulsions ; next at five and a half years, with idiocy fully developed ;and lastly, after one year of manual training. The photographs areso characteristic and in the portrayal of mentality so self-explanatoryas to need no further comment. When such astonishing results in mental development are possibleby manual training alone, where a normal intelligence is wanting, * New Facts and Remarks concerning Idiocy. E. Seguin, A lec-ture delivered before the New York Medical Journal Association, October,1869. MANUAL-TRAINING IDEA AS A FACTOR IN DENTAL EDUCATION. 433 what may not be expected when this principle is applied where its effectis aided by the reasoning faculty ? It was the recognition of its valueby Froebel which suggested to his mind the Kindergarten system for. the education of children, a system in which the deficiencies are inthe method, or of its application, rather than in the principle uponwhich it depends. In the mind of the idiot educated by manual training, the sum totalof his knowledge is represented by a multitude of impressions devel- 434 THE DENTAL COSMOS. oped through the perceptive faculties ; his power to reason aboutthese may or may not become highly developed, depending uponhis curability. In the case of the normal infant, however, his reasoning faculty de-velops, pari passu, with his acquisition of facts. As his store ofmental photographic impressions increases, his generalizations becomebroader, his knowledge of the various bearings or phases of a givenfact or event becomes, in time, so varied, that it may be likened toa composite photograph in which the lines of coincidence only arepreserved, while the points of difference are lost. In the comparisonof these mental composites he has advanced the next hi
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