Letter : Germantown, Pa., to Dr. Blackie, n.p., 1858 Sept. 23.

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Letter : Germantown, Pa., to Dr. Blackie, n.p., 1858 Sept. 23.

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Autograph letter signed. Refers to publishing articles on the mentally disabled.

1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm.

Texas Christian University

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Frank Webster Jay Collection (University of Chicago. Library)

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Kerlin, Isaac Newton, 1834-1893

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Kerlin (University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1856) served as superintendent of the Pennsylvania Institute for Feeble Minded Children in Elwyn, Pa. from 1858 to 1893. His published works were among the first analyses of causes of mental deficiency in children and adults, and his career was devoted to their care. At Elwyn he conducted autopsies to investigate pathology; he published a classification of the feeble-minded and wrote one of the earliest statistical papers on the causes of idiocy. ...