Infant education / [Eric Pritchard].

  • Pritchard, Eric, 1864-1943
Date:
1907
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Credit: Infant education / [Eric Pritchard]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of view, abnormalities of actual growth must be regarded as distinctly more serious than mere abnormalities of function, though doubtless both are the same in kind though different in degree; what I mean is this, actual malformation of the heart, for instance, is a more serious condition than erratic or irregular behaviour of a heart otherwise apparently quite normal in appearance and structure; or hare-lip and cleft palate are more serious conditions than want of proper control over the act of sucking. The uneducation- ability, if I may coin such a word, of any nerve centre, no matter what function that centre subserves, must be regarded in some degree or other as a “ stigma ” of degeneration, or as a bad “point”. However, before one has any grounds for regarding failure in function as a definite sign of degeneration, one has to be quite sure that the failure is not due to want of proper training rather than to actual incapacity for education. Now, bearing these principles in mind, let me direct your attention to certain points in the examination of the infant to which I have not already referred in my previous lectures. In the first place, let me say a few words on the subject of the condition of the skin, for the skin