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Deformity/idiocy in poetry
- Several papers and book chapters
- Relationship between idiocy (mental disease) and multiple cranial anomalies,(abnormal implantation, shape, and excessive length of ears, facial asymmetry, anomalies of: limbs, body, genital, skin, motor, sensory, speech, appetite, palate, dentition, lips, nose, eyes)
- The Idiot-
- Through his misshapen soul & brain, no thought has passed and left its trace, & all that brings man joy and pain, finds in his heart no dwelling place; his life is the world's stain. The horrid vacant visage leers, and shows its heritage of woe, its scars--the sins of ancient years. Could any love or hate it?-no! Pity may give her tears.
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