Practical observations on the intellectual, sanitary, and medical treatment of the deaf and dumb / by Henry Samuel Purdon.

Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Practical observations on the intellectual, sanitary, and medical treatment of the deaf and dumb / by Henry Samuel Purdon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INTRODUCTION. In the month of August, 1865, I published a pamphlet on the “ Peculiarities of the Deaf and Dumb, which had been observed at the Ulster Institution,” and from the manner in which that production has been reviewed by different journals, as well as the flattering compliments of my friends, I have been encouraged to make further enquiries on this subject, the result of which, derived both from correspondence with the medical gentlemen attached to the different institutions in these countries, and from actual observation at the Ulster Institution, I beg leave to lay before the reader in the following pages, saying with Sterne, that “the truest respect which you can pay to the reader’s understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.” I take this opportunity of thanking the following gentlemen, most of whom are attached to the Institu- tions in the towns following their names, for the in- formation that they have furnished me with :—Mr. Jas. Hawkins, London, for his work on “The Constitution of the Deaf and Dumb,” and letter; Mr. Parker, Bath, for his pamphlet on “Enquiry into the Causes of Deaf- Mutism;” Rev. J. Kinghan, Principal of the Ulster Institution, Belfast, for his kindness in allowing mo B