Part II. Optional.

A. Cephalometry and stigmata of degeneration. B. History: Birth. Convulsions. Age at commencement of dentition. Age at commencement of control of bladder Age at commencement of and bowel. Age at commencement of walking. Age at commencement of speech. Infantile diseases. C. Heredity. Father-- Name: Date of birth: Place of birth: { syphilis. Illnesses { alcoholism. { insanity. Mother: _Ibid._ Brothers and Sisters-- Number: Age: Mortality: Health of survivors: Etc.

To sum up, we do not think that the doctor will often have to reject a child, but he will often furnish indications which will help to direct the efforts of the teacher. He will proclaim the opinion, at once so just and so humane, that the symptoms of mental deficiency and want of balance in abnormal children do not arise from laziness or naughtiness, but require no methods of treatment except such as are likely to relieve them. And this conviction which animates him he will impress little by little on the teacher. He will accustom the latter not to regard a defective child at fault like a normal, responsible child, whom he is sometimes tempted to punish in anger, but rather as a patient whose faults should be overcome by persevering patience.

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[13] For the sake of greater completeness, let us refer to a type of imbecile with very characteristic features--namely, the _Mongol_. A little round head, chubby cheeks, rosy as if painted with rouge, oblique eyes, a nose broad at the base and with a tip like a little ball, skin slightly yellow--the whole appearance of the child is such that one doubts his European origin, and thinks of a Chinese doll, with limbs of india-rubber, so great is the looseness of the joints. During his first year the Mongol is rather drowsy and quiet--too "old-fashioned," as the mothers say. In the second or third year he becomes lively. His countenance acquires a comic and jolly expression, and his imitative instincts become curiously developed, and as a general rule he is very sweet-tempered. They all resemble one another, and all "promise much and achieve little," for they never cease to be imbeciles.