![]() ![]() ![]() from the medical department of the University of the city of New York in 1861, after which he came to reside in New York city. In 1860 he removed to Mount Vernon, New York, and he received the degree of M. After the revolution of 1848 he came to the United States, and after visiting various schools, modelled on his own, that had been established in the United States, and assisting in their organization, he settled in Cleveland, and later in Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1844 a commission from the Academy of sciences in Paris examined critically his plan of educating idiot children, and in their report, declared that, up to the time when he began his labors, idiots could not be educated or cured by any means, but that he had solved the problem. He was soon able to obtain remarkable results by his system of training. In 1837 he began to treat an idiot boy, and in 1839 he opened the first school for idiots. At the suggestion of Itard he determined to devote himself to the training of idiots, and thoroughly investigated the causes and philosophy of idiocy and the best means of dealing with it. Louis, and then studied medicine and surgery under Jean Gaspard Itard. He was educated at the College of Auxerre and St. ![]() SEGUIN, Edouard, physician, born in Clamecy, France, 20 January, 1812 died in New York city, 28 October, 1880. To become this site's editor or a contributorĪ B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z With thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional lifeīiographies. If acceptable, the new biography will be published above the 19th CenturyĪppleton's Cyclopedia Biography citing the volunteer editor Submit a rewritten biography in text form. If you would like to edit this biography please We rely on volunteers to edit the historicīiographies on a continual basis. warns that these 19th Centuryīiographies contain errors and bias. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James ![]()
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