Excerpt from The Journal of Psychological Medicine, 1872, Vol. 6: A Quarterly Review of Diseases of the Nervous System, Medical Jurisprudence and Anthropology The other case was that of a young man eighteen years of age, also mute from birth. He entered the institution en tirely illiterate, never having learned the alphabet in either its printed or written form. He had great self-respect, always attired himself neatly, and appeared to advantage in the si lent intercourse he had with others. He had for some years worked in a woollen factory, and was able to support himself without assistance from his friends. In the single year he was under instruction, he acquired an ability to read under standingly, as well as to give correctly in writing the inci dents Of everv-day life, so that on returning to his manual labors he was in possession of a very satisfactory means of communication with others. Unlike the lad first mentioned he must all the while have had a mental speech fully up to the necessities of the society in which he was accustomed to move. The language of signs was not used in his instruction, and he seemed to feel no inclination to avail himself of it. N o impediment of speech was apparent to the eye - his ina bility being probably the result of some imperfection in the larynx. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.