RT Journal
A1 SMEAD HE
T1 MOngolian idiocy
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD July 31
VO LIII
IS 5
SP 362
OP 364
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550050007002f
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550050007002f
AB Several years ago I was called to attend a male child about 8 months old, suffering at the time from acute bronchopneumonia. This child had a peculiar facial conformation which then attracted my attention. Some weeks after my first acquaintance with him I saw another, somewhat older, but having such a remarkable resemblance to the first that it was difficult to believe that they were not brothers. These children were mental defectives of the Mongolian type. Since that time I have seen about thirty of these children in practice and in institutions in this country and in Europe. I wish now to discuss in particular this class of cases, which is comparatively common among us, although it frequently passes unrecognized.In 1866 Dr. Langdon Down described a condition which was characterized by features which bore a remarkable resemblance to those of certain Mongolian races, particularly to a