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PRELUDE “A child's abnormalities may prove his subsequent strength as an individual”: that scathing note annotating an article in an American library periodical typifies F.G.B.H.'s concern for people early and late. In 1937, he was horrified by the battery of specialists trained on the child who failed in reading in the USA. They included “the physician, the oculist, psychologist, reading specialist, social worker … psychiatrist and the teacher”. Hutchings commented