1
With a tip of the hat to Robert Lacey and
Danny Danziger and their delightful book The Year
1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An
Englishman’s World (London: Little, Brown and Company,
1999).
2
The term “neurometric” is closely identified
with John, who has devised both the Neurometric Battery, a
comprehensive system for analyzing brain functions, and the
Neurometric Analyzer, a patented instrument for making use of the
Battery; but John had nothing to do with Neurometrics, Inc. He
describes the Battery in Neurometric Evaluation of
Brain Function in Normal and Learning Disabled Children (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989).
3
Recounted by the British prison psychiatrist
Theodore Dalrymple in the magazine City
Journal.