 | Obstetrical Society of London - Obstetrics - 1877 - 454 pages
...what I have laid down as to the way developmental idiocy has its physical signs and configuration, that the prognosis is, contrary to what is so often...the child is comely, fair to look upon, and winsome. I considered had most direct bearing on " the obstetrical aspect of idiocy." Dr. FC COSY stated that,... | |
 | Francis Warner - Emotions - 1885 - 476 pages
...brain-centres. Speaking of idiots, Dr. Langdon Down remarks (Obstetrical Transactions, vol. xxii.) that " the prognosis is, contrary to what is so often...child is comely, fair to look upon, and winsome." This, I believe, is due to slight absorption or shrinking of the fat of the face, leading to very fine... | |
 | 1891 - 880 pages
...that, in fact, it is more hopeful to have to do with an ill-developed than with a damaged brain, ¡yul having regard to what I have laid down as to the physical...suggested by the topics I have touched on. I have endeavored, however, not to wander into simply philosophical paths, but to confine myself to what I... | |
 | George Edward Shuttleworth - Children - 1900 - 232 pages
...physical features ; yet our experience is quite in accord with that of the late Dr. Langdon-Down,* that " the prognosis is, contrary to what is so often...the child is comely, fair to look upon and winsome." There are, however, a few cases of mild traumatism, and even of post-inflammatory lesion, in which... | |
 | Sir Robert Hutchison - Children - 1906 - 436 pages
...to mental improvement. As Dr. Langdon Down has said, the prognosis is hopeful, contrary to what is often thought, ' inversely as the child is comely, fair to look upon, and winsome.' TREATMENT OP MENTAL DEFICIENCY. The treatment I can dismiss in a few words, because, I am sorry to... | |
 | Alfred Frank Tredgold - Brain - 1908 - 480 pages
...dictum was enunciated by Langdon Down many years ago, in the words that the prognosis is favourable " inversely as the child is comely, fair to look upon, and winsome," and experience has fully confirmed its general truth. The explanation of this apparent anomaly is that... | |
 | Children - 1908 - 628 pages
...distinguished by an intellectual examination. The prognosis here is bad; in the words of Langdon-Down, it is " inversely as the child is comely, fair to look upon and winsome." The last type which I wish to describe is the moral defective. This again is based on a different classification,... | |
 | George Edward Shuttleworth, William Alexander Potts - Children - 1910 - 300 pages
...repulsive physical features; yet our experience is quite in accord with that of the late J. LangdonDown,* that " the prognosis is, contrary to what is so often...child is comely, fair to look upon, and winsome." There are, however, a few cases of mild traumatism, and even of postinflammatory lesion, in which a... | |
 | George Edward Shuttleworth, William Alexander Potts - Children - 1910 - 298 pages
...repulsive physical features ; yet our experience is quite in accord with that of the late J. LangdonDown,* that " the prognosis is, contrary to what is so often...child is comely, fair to look upon, and winsome." There are, however, a few cases of mild traumatism, and even of postinflammatory lesion, in which a... | |
 | Sir Robert Hutchison - 1910 - 522 pages
...to mental improvement. As Dr. Langdon Down has said, the prognosis is hopeful, contrary to what is often thought, ' inversely as the child is comely, fair to look upon, and TREATMENT OP MENTAL DEFICIENCY. The treatment I can dismiss in a few words, because, I am sorry to... | |
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having regard to what I have laid down as to the physical signs and configuration of congenital idiocy, that the prognosis is, contrary to what is so often thought, inversely as the child is comely, fair to look upon, and winsome. It will be readily conceived... 
