THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MEDICAL REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1847. PART FIRST. Ømalptical and Critical 33rbiting, ART. I. 1. Traitement Moral, Hygiène et Education des Idiots et des autres Enfants arriérés ou retardés dans leur développement, agités de Moure ments involontaires, débiles, muets non-sourds, begues, &c. Par Edoua RD SíguiN.—Paris, 1846. The Moral Treatment, Hygiene, and Education of Idiots, and of other Children backward or retarded in their development, agitated with in voluntary Movements, Weak, Dumb, but not Deaf, Stammering, &c. By Edward Ségui N.—Paris, 1846. 8vo, pp. 734. 2. Remarks, Theoretical and Practical, on the Education of Idiots and Children of Weak Intellect. By W. R. Scott, Ph.D., Principal of the West of England Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. —London and Exeter, 1846. 8vo, pp. 46. M. Ségui N informs us in his introduction that he has studied idiotcy for ten years, that owing to a report by Pariset on his method, and to the encouragement and approbation of the Academy of Sciences, he was in trusted with the education of the young idiots in the Paris hospitals;– that his work is entirely new, for though encouraged by Itard and Esquirol, he was compelled to find his resources in himself;-that in his investigation he was forced to inquire into the plans of education, both in tellectual and physical, most in vogue, and to weigh their merits by ap plying them to practice. We learn from the book itself, that M. Séguin is not a physician, but a teacher;-that, instigated by M. Itard, he has de voted himself wholly to the education of idiots; and that to effect this, the teacher must carry out his plans himself with the most laborious pains taking. The education of beings so imperfect in body as well as in mind, taught him in language not to be mistaken that the due performance of the healthy bodily functions is essential to the action of the mind, and that x LVII.-xxiv. l - * -