at long intervals. Recognizes ordinary things about him ; speaks a 
few words with very indistinct enunciation. Has learned to feed, 
dress and undress himself with some assistance, and there has been 
gradual improvement in habits of self-help and cleanliness. At 
times is very excitable. A mere pigmy of a child, was born in the 
almshouse. Labor difficult ; the mother, 27 years of age, became 
helpless two years prior to her death from a stroke of paralysis. 
The father, age unknown, died within a year after the child's birth 
with tumor of the stomach accompanied with spasms. A. has I