Le crétin des Batignolles.

Autopsie, avec deux planches en photoglyptie.

Ball, Benjamin, 1825-1893.

Journal : L'Encéphale, journal des maladies mentales et nerveuses, vol. iii.

Paris : Librairie J. -B. Baillière et Fils, 1883.

Description : pp. 85-90, [1 l.] pl. ; ill.: 2 photo. ; 21 cm.

Photographs : photoglypties, two images printed on one leaf.

Subject : Cretinism.

Notes :

• First printing: Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris. Paris, G. Masson ; vol. vi., 1883 (pp. 9-19).
• First issue title: Le cerveau du crétin des Batignolles.
• First issue published without photographs.
• Sequel to: Ball (1882), Le crétin des Batignolles. Paris, L'Encéphale, vol. ii. (also: Bulletins).
• Ball and Luys co-edited L'Encéphale.
• Cited: Bourneville & Bricon, (1886), De l'idiotie compliquée de cachexie pachydermique. Paris, Arch. Neur., vol. xii.
• Index Medicus: 20310241390 (1st issue, Bulletins).

Autopsy report and follow-up study on the cretin of Batignolles which Dr. Ball first published a few months prior within the journals Encéphale and Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie. Of the two images represented, one is a preparation of the subject's brain and the other reproduces Broca's drawing of craniums.