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Excerpt from: Idiot Asylums Nearly up to the present time the miserable idiot has been regarded as one of a Pariah caste, rather to be ignored as much as possible than sought out and succoured. Till the beginning of this century, idiots were regarded either with superstitious awe or abhorrence... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Idiot Asylums | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | September 2, 1865 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | Littell's Living Age | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | vol.86, no.1109, pp.385-432 | |
| Keywords: | Abuse; Advocacy; Asylums; Attendants; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Doctors; Economics; Edouard Seguin; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; England; Family; Feeblemindedness; France; Government; Government Agencies; Identity; Idiocy; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Pennsylvania; Physiological Training; Public Welfare; Samuel Gridley Howe; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities; Work | |
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