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Some Genetical Problems in Mental Deficiency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

L. S. Penrose
L. S. Penrose*
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Research Department, Royal Eastern Counties' Institution, Colchester
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The popular conception of mental defect is that it is a common abnormality of a kind fairly easy to understand and to study, and for whose ætiology simple rules can be laid down. Textbooks on general medicine usually dismiss the subject in a few paragraphs, and even those devoted to diseases of the mind rarely find room for more than one short chapter on mental defect.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 84 , Issue 352 , September 1938 , pp. 693 - 707
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1938 

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