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 :





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.





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