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050  4 GN372|b.I8 1932 
099    WORLD WIDE WEB|aE-BOOK|aEBSCO 
100 1  Itard, Jean Marc Gaspard,|d1775-1838. 
245 14 The wild boy of Aveyron =|b(Rapports et mémoires sur le 
       sauvage de l'̕Aveyron) /|cby Jean Marc Gaspard Itard ; 
       translated by George and Muriel Humphrey ; with an 
       introduction by George Humphrey. 
246 31 (Rapports et mémoires sur le sauvage de l'̕Aveyron) 
264  1 New York ;|aLondon :|bCentury Company,|c[1932] 
264  4 |c©1932 
300    xxiv, 104 pages ;|c21 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Century psychology series 
500    Includes index. 
500    GMD: electronic resource. 
520    "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 
       Ďbats 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 colleague was too 
       conservative in applying his own principle of the 
       curability of mental disease, came to the conclusion that 
       the boy's condition was curable. The apparent subnormality
       Itard attributed to the fact that the child had lacked 
       that intercourse with other human beings and that general 
       experience which is an essential part of the training of a
       normal civilized person. This diagnosis Itard was prepared
       to back by an attempt at treatment, and the boy was 
       consequently placed under the young doctor's care at the 
       institution over which he presided. Of the immediate 
       success of Itard's work there is no question. In place of 
       the hideous creature that was brought to Paris, there was 
       to be seen after two years' instruction an "almost normal 
       child who could not speak," but who lived like a human 
       being; clean, affectionate, even able to read a few words 
       and to understand much that was said to him"--
       Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all 
       rights reserved). 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bWashington, D.C. :|cAmerican 
       Psychological Association,|d2005.|nAvailable via the World
       Wide Web.|nAccess limited by licensing agreement. 
650  0 Child development. 
650  0 Educational psychology. 
650  0 Human behavior. 
700 1  Humphrey, George,|d1889-1966 
700 1  Humphrey, Muriel. 
710 2  American Psychological Association. 
730 0  PsycBooks. 
830  0 Century psychology series 
994    01|bSTJ