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a semi-mute. In training class learned to string beads, sew cards, 
to recognize a ball, and to play with a wagon. Is quarrelsome 
and in attacks of temper will tear his clothing and fight other 
children, becoming more destructive and violent as he grows older. 
Has improved in habits of self-help. Was the second of 8 children, 
the fifth being also an idiot. Was a " blue baby." Labor difficult 
but without instruments. Father 26 and mother 21 at time of 
birth ; both nervous prior to child's birth. Mother an imbecile. 
Father a machinist by trade, drank moderately ; had one brother 
an imbecile epileptic, and two other brothers who died of consump- 
tion. Mother was subject to neuralgia, and her sister who is chor-