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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: wild boy of Aveyron
    sub title: (Rapports et mémoires sur le sauvage de l'Aveyron)
  title info:
    title: Rapports et mémoires sur le sauvage de l'Aveyron
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Itard, Jean Marc Gaspard
    name part: 1775-1838
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Humphrey, Muriel Miller.
  name:
    name part: Humphrey, George
    name part: 1889-1966
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1932
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (104 pages) : frontispiece (portrait)
  abstract: "The scene of the very human story described in this book was laid in Paris at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. In these stirring times there lived at Paris a young medical man, Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, born in the provinces, who had early achieved some distinction in his profession and at the age of twenty-five was appointed physician to the new institution for deaf-mutes. In 1799, the year seven by the new calendar, there was published in the Journal des Db̌ats a letter by one Citizen Bonaterre, describing a wild boy taken in the woods of the Department of Aveyron. According to reports, the child was a specimen of primitive humanity. He had been found almost unclad, wandering about at the outskirts of the forest in which he had apparently lived for some years, a stranger to human kind, eking out a precarious existence as best he could. The boy was brought to Paris and soon became a nine days' wonder. People of all classes thronged to see him, expecting to find, as Rousseau had told them, a pattern of man as he was: "when wild in woods the noble savage ran." What they did see was a degraded being, human only in shape; a dirty, scarred, inarticulate creature who trotted and grunted like the beasts of the fields, ate with apparent pleasure the most filthy refuse, was apparently incapable of attention or even of elementary perceptions such as heat or cold, and spent his time apathetically rocking himself backwards and forwards like the animals at the zoo. A "mananimal, " whose only concern was to eat, sleep, and escape the unwelcome attentions of sightseers. Expert opinion was as usual somewhat derisive of popular attitude and expectations. The great Pinel examined the boy, declaring that his wildness was a fake and that he was an incurable idiot. Among those who saw the child was the young Itard, who, fired with the notion that science, particularly medical science, was all-powerful, and perhaps believing that his older colleag…
  note: by Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard ; translated by George and Muriel Humphrey, with an introduction by George Humphrey.
  note: Translation of: Rapports et mémoires sur le sauvage de l'Aveyron.
  note: Title from title page image.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web via PsycBooks.
  note: System requirements: Internet connectivity and World Wide Web browser. Adobe Acrobat reader required to view and print files.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  subject:
    topic: Children with disabilities
  subject:
    topic: Feral children
    geographic: France
  subject:
    topic: Psychology, Pathological
  subject:
    topic: Children with disabilities
  subject:
    topic: Feral children
  subject:
    topic: Psychology, Pathological
  subject:
    geographic: France
  classification: GN290 .I83
  classification: 136.764
  classification: GN 270 I88r 1932
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 32007578
    identifier: (OCoLC)2504594
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Century psychology series
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  record info:
    record content source: W2U
    record creation date: 890626
    record change date: 20260612153232.5
    record identifier: in00003522702