Our local paper ("The Hartford Courant") had two long articles about ADHD in 
the magazine section 5/26/96; it was rather interesting, and fairly well 
balanced.  One thing that it did is go into the history of the condition, 
going back to the turn of the century.
The article is on the web at 
http://www.courant.com/news/adhdmain.htm
Don't be put off by the first line or two about "defect of moral control"; 
the term was not used the way it might be today, but rather meant a lack of 
self-restraint.
Jerry Schwartz
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