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was apt to tumble, falling with his knees bent 

 forward and his legs doubled under him ; he was 

 fond of hopping, and at such times looked still more 

 like an ape. The great toes of both feet were at 

 an angle to the foot, and thus gave the impression 

 of a prehensile foot. At first Krause supposed that 

 this deviation was produced by the child's endeavour 

 to supply a broader basis of support for his uncertain 

 gait; but he subsequently changed his opinion, 

 since he did not find the same peculiarity in other 

 children of diseased brain, as, for instance, in those 

 suffering from water on the brain. The boy could 

 say very little, only papa and mamma, and it was 

 long before he could pronounce these words in two 

 syllables ; for the most part, he only uttered a sound 

 resembling a grunt. He imitated the barking of 

 a dog, with the sound of rolling r's. He often 

 stamped his feet and clapped his hands together, 

 making a grunting noise as Krause had observed 

 in the case of gorillas and chimpanzees. The boy 

 was smaller than other children of his age, and had 

 weak eyes ; his head was sore, and his forehead 

 narrow. His imitative tendency was strongly 

 marked, and his wdiole nature and all his move- 

 ments strikingly resembled those of apes. He had 

 been much neglected by his parents.* 



When I was a student at Berlin I had the oppor- 

 tunity of observing a similar being of twelve years 

 old, in what was at that time the Woinbergswege, 

 near the Kosenthaler Gate. This was a boy with 



* Correspondevzhlatt der deutschen Anthropologischen Gesell- 

 schaft, p. 133: 1878. 



