Nervous and mental diseases . the condition is exceedinglyobscure ; and even were the psychological processes which underlie specialaptitudes understood, there would still remain the mystery of the mani-festation of particular talents or faculties in minds otherwise blank ordefective. The aptitudes may be summarized as follows : Arithmetical faculty, musical faculty, special memories, imitativefaculty, modeling faculty, delineative faculty, faculty for painting, apti-tude for games (draughts, etc.), aptitude for buffoonery. (See article byauthor on Idiots Savants in Appletons Popular Science M
Nervous and mental diseases . the condition is exceedinglyobscure ; and even were the psychological processes which underlie specialaptitudes understood, there would still remain the mystery of the mani-festation of particular talents or faculties in minds otherwise blank ordefective. The aptitudes may be summarized as follows : Arithmetical faculty, musical faculty, special memories, imitativefaculty, modeling faculty, delineative faculty, faculty for painting, apti-tude for games (draughts, etc.), aptitude for buffoonery. (See article byauthor on Idiots Savants in Appletons Popular Science Monthly,December, 1896, in which a history of some remarkable examples isgiven. See also page 877 of this book.) General Etiology.—There are nearly twice as many male as femaleidiots. In idiocy due to prolonged or difficult labor, this disproportionis even larger (three males to one female)—a fact to be explained probablyby the larger size of the male infant. The causes of idiocy may be classi-fied as follows : IDIOCY. 875. Fig. 333.—Paraplegic idiocy. Fig. 334.—Idiocy after acute insanity of tic of fingers.
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