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Manual Communication

System that uses articulation of the hands (hand signs, gestures) to mediate a message between persons

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    Traité pratique des maladies de l'oreille.

    Triquet, E. H. (Eugène Hippolyte), 1822-1867 | Date: 1857
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    Signing in the Seraglio : mutes, dwarfs amd jestures at the Ottoman Court 1500-1700 / M. Miles.

    Miles, M. | Date: [©1994-]
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    Chirologia: or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life, and civill conversation / ...By J. B. Gent. Philochirosophus.

    John Bulwer | Date: 1644
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    Instruction of the deaf and dumb; or, a theoretical and practical view of the means by which they are taught to speak and understand a language : containing hints for the correction of impediments in speech. Together with a vocabulary ... / by Joseph Watson.

    Watson, Joseph, 1765?-1829. | Date: 1809
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    Alphabet manuel de l'Abbé de l'Épée : adopté par l'Institution nationale des sourds-muets pour leur instruction.

    Charles-Michel de l'Épée | Date: [1878]

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