brown ; eyes black ; sight and hearing good ; voice husky, and 
enunciation defective ; very talkative ; noisy ; indolent ; obstinate, and 
cruel to other children- Mother sixteen, father twenty-one, at time 
of child's birth. Father's family said to be scrofulous, and several 
of its members to have had a " breaking out of the skin like C.'s " ; 
father a drunkard, and also addicted to the inordinate use of tobacco. 
Maternal grandmother died a confirmed dipsomaniac ; maternal 
grandfather, of " some heart trouble " ; paternal grandfather, of 
apoplexy. C. has but one sister living — the mother being unwilling 
to bring other children into the world, separated from her hus- 
band. C. began to walk at sixteen months, and reached mental 
limit at fourteen years. When three years of age was found in a 
spasm due, it was thought, to fright at the screams of her drunken 
father. There has been no return of spasms, but she is extremely 
nervous. Given a fair trial in school she was able to learn nothing beyond the