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Excerpt from: New York State Asylum For Idiots, Second Annual Report Of The Trustees It had been discovered that the term “idiot” very inaccurately described the different conditions of imbecility of intellect; that there were grades and degrees at great distances from each other; that the effects of bodily injuries had been confounded with original organization; that ill treatment and neglect had obscured minds naturally healthy, and finally that by proper discrimination and training, adapted to each case, in many instances the intellect had been aroused or developed, and new creatures born into the world.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | New York State Asylum For Idiots, Second Annual Report Of The Trustees | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | February 10, 1853 | |
| Format: | Annual Report | |
| Source: | Steve Taylor Collection | |
| Keywords: | Abuse; Albany, NY; Asylums; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Correspondence; Deaf; Doctors; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Family; Government; Government Agencies; Hervey B. Wilbur; Idiocy; Institutions; Labor; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; Neglect; New York; New York City, NY; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Nomenclature; Parenting; Physiological Training; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Public Welfare; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics | |
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