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Hearing Loss

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  • Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, New York: with an elaborate border. Line engraving by J.D. Smillie after Davis.
  • A vicar using sign language to the congregation at a service at a deaf and dumb church. Wood engraving after A.S. Hartick (?).
  • A man attempting to alert a deaf farmer using an ear trumpet as to the plight of his horses and cart. Coloured etching.
  • Christ cures a deaf man with his hands. Woodcut.
  • The Deaf and Dumb institution, Cabra, Ireland. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after C. Geoghegan.

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    The education of the deaf and dumb practically considered : with an illustrated method of articulate speech / by S. E. Hull.

    Hull, S.E. | Date: 1865
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    A man attempting to alert a deaf farmer using an ear trumpet as to the plight of his horses and cart. Coloured etching.

    | Reference: 10959i
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    A doctor tests a patient's hearing with a pistol. Colour process print after H. Nymark, 1977.

    Nymark, Harald, 1925- | Date: c. 1980 | Reference: 18194i
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    Deaf-mutism / by Holger Mygind.

    Mygind Holger, 1855-1928. | Date: 1894
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    At the Blew-Ball in Sir William Pritchards [sic] rents in Haydon-Yard in the Little-Minories near the Tower, London, liveth Mr. Elmy, operator, occulist, and practitioner of that noble art of healing: who.

    Elmy, Mr | Date: [1700]
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