THE BEST BRAINS
People With Small Heads or Large? London, January 25. In (lie course of a debate in the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr. R. J. A. Berry, chairman of the Burden Mental Research Trust, said it had been proved that at least two-thirds of mental defectives were small-headed. Dr. R, MacKenzie Stewart said that mental deficiency manifested itself as much in the body as in the brain. Mental defectives were nearly always under-sized, but this need not establish any prejudice in favour of very tall or large-headed persons. Men witli massive heads do not necessarily represent the intelligentsia.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 105, 28 January 1935, Page 9
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100THE BEST BRAINS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 105, 28 January 1935, Page 9
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