title: John Langdon Down: Down's syndrome.
abstract: When I was a medical student in the 1940's we youngsters were well familiar with the condition called 'Mongolism'. We saw these patients--labelled 'Mongols'--as children in the paediatric clinics, and as older patients on our visits to the local enormous mental hospital during our attachment in psychiatry, where many of them spent the whole of their lives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, University of London, Guy's Campus, London, SE1 1UL.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000266:history* / Q000503:physiopathology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom