SEGUIN. ErocAnn, 1812-80: b. France: educated at the colleges of Auxerre and Et. Louis in Paris; studied medicine and surgery under hard (q.v.). and was afterward associated with Esquirol. At Itard's suggestion Dr. Seguin, soon after graduating in medicine, undertook the training of a few idiot children. See Imoov. In 1846 he pub lished a treatise entitled Traitement moral, hygiene et I]ducation des et des attires Enfants arrieres, which has always been the standard text-book on the subject. After the revolution of 1848, Dr. Seguin came to the United States, visiting the idiot school in South Boston and the institution for feeble-minded youth at Barre, INiass.. and then went to Albany, where Dr. Wilbur was organizing an experimental school which devel oped into the New York state idiot asylum at Syracuse, and rendered valuable assist ance. He then went to France, and returned with his family in 1851, settling at Ports mouth, Ohio, to practice medicine. But he visited and taught at various idiot institutions in Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, and for a time was nt t he head of the Pennsylvania institution. He again IN eta to Fiance in 1858; returned to the United
States again in 1859. and settled in practice at Mount Vernon, N. Y., from whence be removed to New York city in 1863, publishing Idiocy and its Treatment by the Pieysio, logical Method in 186G. He has also published Mamie ct PrIthqUe de CEA] ucation ots (Paris, 1842); Hygiene et Education des _Idiots (Paris, 1843); Imagee gradttees Usage des Enfants arrieres et Idiots 1846); F. R. Periere, premier lmstitateor des Sounds et Muets en France (Paris, 1847); historical Nottceof the Origin and Progrete of the Treat ment of Idiots (translated by J. S. Newberry, Ben., 1852); New Facts and Remarks Con cerning Idiocy (1869); an edition of Wunderlich's Medical Thermothetry, with large addi tions (1871). He invented a physiological thermometer, which is in use among physi cians. -