Word: feeblemindedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...differences between the "worthy Quakeress and the feeble-minded slattern" cannot account for the differences between the two Kallikak clans. For Old Horror, who was presumably feebleminded, could not, by the law of genetics, have inherited his feeble mind from one parent alone. Only "recessive" genes are involved in feeblemindedness, "which means that such genes must come from both parents for the effect to assert itself." Hence "the worthy Martin Kallikak Sr., himself had to be carrying such genes of feeblemindedness . . . and the 'good' Kallikaks also received some of those genes." Most probably, concludes Mr. Scheinfeld, bad environment...
Not every spastic paralytic can take a gamble like Sylva's. Sometimes the motor control centres of the brain are injured at birth. Such children may learn to walk after a fashion, but their movements are disordered and uncontrolled. They are often mistakenly considered feebleminded, although the intellectual centres...
In subsequent years, Dr. Kanner told the psychiatrists last week, many had become prostitutes. Many had illegitimate children. Fifty-one who married produced 165 children, 108 feebleminded. Not one of their husbands is "endowed with normal or near-normal intelligence."
Concluded indignant Dr. Kanner: "Time alone will tell how many more feebleminded, illegitimate, neglected children this group of released patients will in the future bestow on a Commonwealth that can do nothing but look on and pay the penalty for the indiscriminate habeas corpus release by its courts of justice...
The boiling and bubbling of Author Hutchinson's cauldron never ceases. It begins when lovely little Renée Séverin, wife of a French officer, leaves the tropics to take her two children to the ancestral home of the Séverins in northern France. The most...