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OCR: Retarded Genius Drs Down and Tredgold were consultants at institutions for the mentally defective Dr Tredgold described "the Genius Of Earlswood Asylum ibec who for more than fifty years made extremely intricate models of iships and machines He also wrote of an otherwise retarded man who could take complex mechanism like watch and disassemble and reassemble it swiftly with ou prior instruction An 11 year-old seen by specialists in 1937 could name the day of the week of any date between 1880 and 1950 He could eppe dozen double numbers as fast as they were called out spell forward or backward with equal ease, play Dvorak' "Largo by ear. and sing Tall of the aria Credo and the duet S Pel Ciel'from Otello He was doing poorly at school and IQ tests gave him score of 50 putting him in the lowest ...