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Contribution to the Medico-legal Study of Prostitution and Vagrancy in Imbeciles [Contribution à l'etude médico-légale des imbeciles prostituées et vagabondes]. (Gaz. des Hôp., July 30th, 1901). Gamier and Wahl
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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The authors record three medico-legal observations of imbecile prostitutes. The subjects all presented numerous stigmata of degeneracy, and displayed extremely perverse instincts. Attention is drawn to the large proportion of congenitally weakminded persons to be found amongst prostitutes and vagrants, and measures of special restraint for individuals of that class are recommended.
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