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The obsolete medical terms Mongolian idiocy and Mongolism referred to a specific type of mental deficiency, associated with the genetic disorder now known...

third generation prone to insanity; and a final generation doomed to congenital idiocy and sterility. In 1857, Morel proposed a theory of hereditary degeneracy...

newborn child is suspected of being afflicted with the following congenital disorders: 1) Idiocy and mongolism (especially cases combined with blindness and...

familial basis, proposed that the disease should be called amaurotic familial idiocy. However, its genetic basis was still poorly understood. Although Gregor...

affected were often referred to as "Mongoloids" or in terms of "Mongolian idiocy" or "Mongolian imbecility". Mongolian as a term for race was first introduced...

Moebius won a still dubious fame by his pamphlet "On the Physiological Idiocy of Women" (Halle: Marhold 1900). He received the greatest contemporary recognition...

hallucinations, or gross intellectual deficit ('idiocy'). He divided the psychopathies into congenital and acquired forms, and each of those categories...

three years. Imbecile indicated an intellectual disability less severe than idiocy and a mental age between three and seven years. Moron was defined as someone...

ISBN 978-0-12-374476-0. James F. Welles (1988). Story of Stupidity: A History of Western Idiocy from the Days of Greece to the Present. Mount Pleasant Press. ISBN 978-0961772918...

in the state. This study implicated cousin marriage as responsible for idiocy. Within the next two decades, numerous reports (e.g. one from the Kentucky...

decline of intellectual powers, loss of memory, attacks of rage, madness, idiocy, epilepsy, fever and finally suicide. Included were letters and testimonials...

whom any of the following 'serious hereditary diseases' were 'suspected': idiocy and Down syndrome (especially when associated with blindness and deafness);...

severe mental subnormality) 318.2 Profound mental retardation (Include: idiocy, profound mental subnormality) 319 Unspecified mental retardation (Include:...

"On the nature of the "stored" lipid substances in juvenile amaurotic idiocy (Batten-Spielmeyer-Vogt)". Ann Histochim. 8: 255–7. PMID 14171739. Terry...

"Contexts and perspectives" inDavid Wright; Anne Digby, eds. (1996). From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency: Historical Perspectives on People With Learning Disabilities...

neurological consequences of the cortical tubers. Vogt's triad of epilepsy, idiocy, and adenoma sebaceum held for 60 years until research by Manuel Gómez discovered...