Édouard Séguin was a French physician and educationist born in Clamecy, Nièvre. He is remembered for his work with children having cognitive impairments in France and the United States. Wikipedia
Born: January 20, 1812, Clamecy, France
Died: October 28, 1880 (age 68 years), New York, NY
Known for: Work with children with cognitive impairments
Education: NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Lycée Saint-Louis
Children: Edward Constant Séguin
Books
Idiocy: And Its Treatment by the Physiological Method
1866
Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature
1871
New Facts and Remarks Concerning Idiocy: Being a Lecture Delivered Before the New York Medical Journal Association, October 15, 1869
1870
Report on education 1875
1875
Idiocy
2019
Family Thermometry: A Manual of Thermonetry, for Mothers, Nurses, Hospitalers, Etc., and All who Have Charge of the Sick and of the Young
1873