For microcephalous children of some years of age are a substitute for imaginary, because never practicable, vivisectory experiments, concerning the connection of body and mind.
On the other hand, the speechless infant certainly furnishes the proof, which is confirmed by some observations on microcephalous persons several years old or of adult age.
In this case the microcephalous of four years behaves, as far as the development of will is concerned, like the normal boy of four months.
A microcephalous boy was born of healthy parents--he was their first child--about four weeks too soon.
Further, she shows a tender sympathy with her microcephalous brother; she takes bread from the table, goes to her brother's bedside and feeds him, as he is not of himself capable of putting food into his mouth.
It is only in rare cases that microcephalous children can be observed, while living, for any considerable length of time continuously.
Laennec exhibited to the Anthropological Society of Paris a microcephalousidiot of the male sex, aged fourteen years.
The brains of microcephalous individuals, although often less voluminous and less convoluted than those of the anthropomorphous apes, do not on this account become like the latter.
It is not enough that you should know a microcephalous skull when you see it.
A microcephalous idiot, for instance, thirteen years old, whose eyes brightened a little when he was pleased or amused, has been described by Dr.
Even the eyes of microcephalous idiots, who are so degraded that they never learn to speak, brighten slightly when they are pleased.
It will suffice for our purpose to refer to the arrested brain-development of microcephalous idiots, as described in Vogt's great memoir.
The simple brain of a microcephalous idiot, in as far as it resembles that of an ape, may in this sense be said to offer a case of reversion.
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