she was unable to say the alphabet correctly
*
Plate VII.
From a Photograph of J. F., aet. 17. A case of Developmental General Paralysis. The disease began at the age of 15. The girlish appearance is shown, and the want of mammary development.
(detail of mis-scan, corrected on following page spread)
T(homas). S(mith). Clouston (1840-1915 *). The Neuroses of Development, being The Morison Lectures for 1890. Edinburgh and London, 1891
University of Wisconsin - Madison copy, digitized April 23, 2008
three elsewheres tho’ alas not the same copy/scan (and error), at
Stanford (Lane Medical Library),
Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), and
Columbia University
all archive.org
the full page from which the above (1024 x 1759 pixels).
epigram ex 77
Discussion of J.F. at pp 74 through 79
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There is more life (and love) in the error than the correct scan (and in all of Clouston’s language). Hard to know how to present. And so this portrait.
tags:
alphabet; development; retrogression
T. S. Clouston, The Neuroses of Development (1890)