Feeble-minded

In reality, Buck was at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded because she had been raped and impregnated by the nephew of her foster family the year before.

New book on Buck v. Bell Kay Olson 2008

On a cloudy afternoon on October 19, 1927, as a chilly autumn wind swept down off the Blue Ridge Mountains, rattling the windows of the infirmary at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded, Dr. John H. Bell jotted a few notes about an operation he had performed earlier that day.

Excerpt: Better for All the World by Harry Bruinius 2006

In reality, Buck was at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded because she had been raped and impregnated by the nephew of her foster family the year before.

Archive 2008-11-01 Kay Olson 2008

The court examined a Virginia statute that permitted the sterilization of the mentally impaired where Buck, a patient at the so-called Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded was scheduled to be sterilized after doctors alleged she was a genetic threat to the population due to her diminished mental capacity.

CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006 2006

Feeble-minded - But I do hope Clark hasn't done anything too drastic.

Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

In the very highest posts, such as those of Insurance and Feeble-minded Commissioners, etc., women before the war received the same salaries as men.

Women and War Work Helen Fraser

Colony and Extra-institutional Care of the Feeble-minded, by Charles Bernstein, _Mental Hygiene_, January, 1920.

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Sessions of the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-minded_ contain specially valuable articles on

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded with regard to the present association of lunatics, epileptics, and imbeciles with sane women and children in the workhouse wards.

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

Feeble-minded people are usually poor in all important aspects of mind.

The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners William Henry Pyle