Down's syndrome seen in people from the same family. Four photographs.

4 photographs : photoprints, albumen ; mount 22.6 x 17.4 cm

Mongolian [?] imbecile in one family Lettering in black ink on mount, continues: "(1) & (2) brother & sister, only two children of feebleminded mother who had had several attacks of insanity. (3) & (4) 2 brothers, (3) was last born of a family of four. (4) suffered from R. [?], father had fits possibly epileptic"

Part of a collection of photographs formed by George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928). He was Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster from 1870 to 1893. On his retirement in 1893, he devoted himself to the study of insanity, and published a book entitled "Mentally-deficient children: their treatment and training", London 1895. Some of his photographs, manuscripts and publications were presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1929

Wellcome Collection 39104i