Word: feeblemindedness
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Sirs: . . . Senator Bilbo, is well educated, has a brilliant mind, a strong physical body, a lively imagination, and a nervous energy, and for more than 20 years has spent practically his entire time and energy in constructing, energising, and consumating remedial and beneficial legislation in an effort to amelerate the...
In 20 years, California sterilized 8% only of the insane and feebleminded committed to her asylums, by an operation that did not unsex any patient.
Many schools apparently produce cults in which the virtue of loyalty is regarded as primitive and unintelligent and patriotism the refuge of the feebleminded. This has considered pedagogical encouragement and inspiration, and young people, highly conscious of their liberalism, respond actively. That old notions are discreditable may be quite apparent...
Tirelessly devoted to his movement, he was the chief instrument in bringing to his Congress not only the eminent psychiatrists of all continents, but professional societies little known to the general public?American Psychiatric Association, American Association for the Study of the Feebleminded, American Psychoanalytic Association, American Occupation Therapy Association...
Officials who examined her found that she was an incorrigible from the start, a "moral imbecile" and "definitely anti-social," but too intelligent for an institution for the feebleminded.