History of James Mitchell : a boy born blind and deaf, with an account of the operation performed for the recovery of his sight / by James Wardrop.

  • Wardrop, James, 1782-1869.
Date:
1813
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Credit: History of James Mitchell : a boy born blind and deaf, with an account of the operation performed for the recovery of his sight / by James Wardrop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his sense of Touch, the whole surfaces of the bodies presented to him. On the sixth day he appeared stronger, amused himself a good deal with looking out at the window, and seemed to observe the carts and carriages which were passing in the street. On putting a shilling on the middle of a table he instantly touched it. On the seventh day the inflammation was nearly gone, and he observed a piece of white paper of the size of half a sixpence put upon the table. I took him into the street, and he ap- peared much interested in the busy scene around him, though at times he seemed frightened. A post supporting a scaffold at the distance of two or three yards chiefly attracted his notice, and he timorously approached it, groping, and stretch- ing out his hand cautiously until he touched it,