The Mentally Retarded in Society. By Stanley Powell Davies, with the collaboration of Katherine G. Ecob. Columbia University Press; London : Oxford University Press, 1959. 45s. As the author points out, this volume endeavours to present Cental retardation in its social rather than clinical aspects. Based ?n two earlier books, one published in 1923 and another in 1930, The Mentally Retarded in S...

John Langdon Down was born at Torpoint in Cornwall in 1828. After local schooling he .:: .!.i:.. became apprenticed at the age of 14 for four ;.i.l.l years to his father, a local apothecary. Then, wishing to become a scientist, in 1846 he entered a laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society in London. There he won a prize for organic chemistry and also came into contact with 2A! Michael Faraday. ...

Children as well as adults need a warm affectionate relationship with small circles of intimate associates. In infancy, the relationship and bonding between parent and child are vital to future, normal physical psychological and social development. (Brisbane, 1965; Cruick shank,1963). In siblings a competitive struggle that often develops between siblings for the affection of their parents. In ...