On the education of the imbecile / by Dora Greenwell.

  • Greenwell, Dora, 1821-1882.
Date:
1869
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Credit: On the education of the imbecile / by Dora Greenwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    indefatigable labours at the Bicetre were in full vigour of operation. In 1846 a school was established in Leipzig by Dr. Kern. As early as 1819, Dr. Poole of Aberdeen had advocated the expediency of subjecting idiotic children to medical treatment and educational training, but the first practical effort in Great Britain was made by the Misses White of Bath, who opened in 1846 a small house in that city for the training of the imbecile, and commenced with four children. In the early part of 1847 there appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal two articles on M. Seguin’s work at the Bicetre, which were written by Mr. Gaskell, then medical superintendent of the Lancashire Lunatic Asylum, and for many years subsequently a Commissioner in Lunacy. These articles attracted the attention of Dr. Andrew Reed, the renowned philanthropist, who, having secured the earnest co-operation of Dr. Conolly, and other active benevolent and scientific gentlemen, started an asylum at Park House, Highgate. The outgrowths of this institu¬ tion are the National Asylum at Earlswood, one of the best known and most efficiently conducted institutions of the kind in the world, and the Eastern Counties Asylum at Colchester, of which Mr. Millard, one of the earliest friends of the idiot, is the able superintendent. Scotland in 1852 opened her first institution at Baldovan, near Dundee, pro¬ moted by Sir John Ogilvy; and Dr. Brodie began the good work in Edinburgh, now carried on upon a larger scale at the new Scotch Asylum at Larbert. In June 1853 the corner-stone of Earlswood, Surrey, was laid by Prince Albert. In 1863 a small asylum for the Western Counties was commenced at Star-cross, Exeter, under the leadership