Deaf-mutism / by Holger Mygind.

  • Mygind Holger, 1855-1928.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Deaf-mutism / by Holger Mygind. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. beginning of the present century [see Itard, 31, vol ii., p. 452]. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.—Apart from numerous philosophical and especially peda- gogal writings, no large work of importance on the more physical nature of deaf-mutism appeared until Itard's dissertation at the end of his manual on ear-diseases [31, vol. ii., p. 403-522]. Itard entered especially into the question of the curability of deaf- mutism, and did much to elucidate other matters concerning its etiology and morbid anatomy. Only the larger and more important works upon deaf-mutism which have appeared in the present century (the pedagogal and philosophical always ex- cepted) will be mentioned here, readers being referred to the bibliography at the end of the book. Ed. Schmalz' work, Ueber die Tmihstummen [70], appeared in 1838, and was followed, ten years later by a second edition. This contains statistical matter of great importance, also information as to the then-existing deaf and dumb institutions. The immediate and predisposing causes are also subjects of extensive consideration. The historical introduc- tion is of great interest. Wilde's treatise on deaf-mutism at the end of his classical work on diseases of the ear [72, p. 436-496] is remarkable for its exhaustive historical survey, and for the account of the results yielded by the Irish census of 1851, and is a most valuable work. In 1856 Meissner pubhshed his book, Taiib- stuinmhcit nnd Tanhstitmmenbildung [76], in which