Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 362
ble of the least improvement. Ask him at any time,whether having been awake for hours or aroused from a sound sleep, What time is it V and he instantly replies, l Thirteen minutes and a halfpast four, or whatever the time might be Scientific men have visitedhim, but have been unable to account for… … CAUSES OF IDIOCY. The causes of idiocy are as numerous as those of other in-firmities : intemperate parents; a debilitated condition of thebody; anxiety; grief; habitual melancholy; dyspepsia; fear;abuse of the physical system, orinattention thereto; unbridledpassion ; hereditary predisposi-tion to…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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