legs accompanying utterance (II, 108).
Instinctive Movements.--Thirty-second week, seizing with both hands more perfect; attention more active (248). In same week, legs stretched up vertically, feet observed attentively, toes carried to mouth with the hands (249). Pulling objects to him; grasping at bottle (250). Thirty-fourth week, carrying things to mouth (251).
Expressive Movements.--Laugh begins to be persistently loud (299). Thirty-second week, child no longer sucks at lips when he is kissed, but licks them (305). Eyelid half closed in disinclination (315). Interest in objects shown by stretching out hands (321).
INTELLECT.
Speech.--Variety of sounds made in the first eight months at random (76). Concept of bottle before language (79). Sounds in screaming different (106). Once the sound h[=a]-upp; frequently a-[(ei], a-[(au], [)a]-h[(au]-[)a], h?rr?. Also nt[)e]-?, mi-ja mija; once o[)u][=a][)e]i (107).
FEELING OF SELF.--Thirty-second week, child looks at his legs and feet as if they were foreign to him (194).
NINTH MONTH.
SENSES.
SIGHT.--Movements of Eyes.--Eyes converged easily (38).
Direction of Look.--Thirty-sixth week, objects that fall are not regularly looked after, but slowly moving objects, e. g., tobacco-smoke, are followed (49).
Interpretation of what is seen.--Boxes are gazed at (62). More interest shown in things in general (63).
HEARING.--Winking and starting at slamming noise (86).
TASTE.--Yolk of egg with cane-sugar taken with expression of surprise. Water and bread liked (126).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Striking hands together and laughing for joy (145). Eyes shut when something disagreeable is to be endured; head turned away also (148). Cooing, as in eighth month (155). Fear of dog (167, 168).
WILL.
Reflex Movements.--Number of respirations (in fever) forty and forty-two in a minute (217).
Instinctive Movements.--Teeth-grinding (262). Turning over when laid face downward (266). Thirty-fifth week, child places himself on arm and hand of nurse, and looks over her shoulder (275). Thirty-ninth week, likes to sit with support (267). Thirty-ninth week, stands on feet a moment without support (269).
Expressive Movements.--Loud laughing at new, pleasing objects (299). Turns head to light when asked where it is (321).
Deliberate Movements.--Things brought to mouth are put quickly on tongue (329).
INTELLECT.
Question understood before child can speak (I, 321).
Speech.--Voice more modulated: screaming varies with different causes (107). Delight shown by crowing sounds: m?-m?, ?mm?, m?, are expressions of pleasure; [=a]-au-[=a]-[=a], [=a]-[)o], a-u-au, na-na; apa, ga-au-[)a], acha (108).
FEELING OF SELF.--Feet are felt of, and toes are carried to mouth (190). Thirty-fifth week, foot grasped and carried to mouth. Thirty-sixth week, other objects preferred to hands and feet. Thirty-ninth week, in the bath his own skin is looked at and felt of, also his legs (194). Thirty-fifth week, his image in mirror is grasped at gayly (198).
TENTH MONTH.
SENSES.
SIGHT.--Movements of Eyelids.--Brow invariably wrinkled at looking upward (24).
Movements of Eyes.--Convergence of lines of vision disturbed (38).
Direction of Look.--Forty-third week, objects thrown down are looked at (49).
Interpretation of what is seen.--Visual impressions connected with food best interpreted (63).
HEARING.--Head turned at noise (87).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Joy at lighting of lamp (145).
WILL.
Reflex Movements.--Inhibition of reflex (229).
Instinctive Movements.--Forty-third week, carrying objects to mouth (252). Taking a hair from one hand into the other (253). Finger bitten (261). Bread crunched and swallowed (262). Turning over when laid on face (266). Fortieth and forty-first weeks, trying to sit without support (267). Forty-second week, sitting up without support in bath and carriage (267, 268). Forty-first week, first attempts at walking (275). Forty-second week, moving feet forward and sidewise; inclination to walk. Forty-third week, foot lifted high; moving forward (276).
Imitative Movements.--Beckoning imitated (285).
Expressive Movements.--Laughing becomes more conscious and intelligent (299). Crying in sleep (308). Striking hands together in sleep (319). Object pointed at is carried to mouth and chewed (322). Body straightened in anger (324). This not intentional (326).
INTELLECT.
Forty-third week, knowledge of weight of bodies (I, 50). A child missed his parents when they were absent, also a single nine-pin of a set (7, 8).
Speech.--Child can not repeat a syllable heard (77). In monologue, syllables are more distinct, loud, and varied when child is left to himself than when other persons entertain him: nd?[)e], b[=a]?-b[=a]?, ba ell, arr?. Frequent are m?, pappa, tatta, appapa, babba, t?t?, pa, rrrr, rrra. Hints at imitation (108).
Feeling of Self.--Forty-first week, striking his own body and foreign objects (191). Forty-first to forty-fourth week, image in mirror laughed at and grasped at (198).
ELEVENTH MONTH.
SENSES.
SIGHT.--Direction of Look.--Forty-seventh week, child throws down objects and looks after them (49).
Seeing Near and Distant Objects.--Forty-fourth week, new objects no longer carried to eyes, but gazed at and felt. Forty-seventh week, accommodation perfect (55).
Interpretation of what is seen.--Trying to fixate objects (63).
HEARING.--Screaming is quieted by a "Sh!" or by singing. Three hundred and nineteenth day, difference in sound of spoon on plate when plate was touched by hand (87).
TASTE.--Meat-broth with egg taken; scalded skimmed milk rejected; dry biscuit liked (126).
ORGANIC SENSATIONS AND EMOTIONS.--Forty-fourth week, astonishment at strange face (173).
WILL.
Instinctive Movements.--Forty-fifth week, grasping at flame of lamp; forty-seventh, at objects behind a pane of glass; gain in moving muscles of arm; shreds
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