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CHAPTER IX
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This child had coarse features, a repulsive countenance, was filthy in his habits, and could not articulate a word.
In another case the child was kidnapped at three and recovered at nine.
He muttered, but could not articulate.

As in the other case, he could not be enticed to wear clothes.

From constantly being on all-fours the front of this child's knees and his elbows had become hardened.

In the third case the father identified a son who had been carried away at the age of six, and was found four years afterward.

The intellectual deterioration was not so marked.


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