Deaf-mutism / by Holger Mygind.

  • Mygind Holger, 1855-1928.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Deaf-mutism / by Holger Mygind. 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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    mutes in all places where the matter has been investi- gated. In Norway, where Uchermann has submitted the subject to more minute investigation, it has been proved that the numerical superiority of male deaf- mutes in the period of age 0-20 is entirely owing to acquired deafness [203, p. 99] . The circumstance that a wide-spread epidemic of cerebro-spinal menin- gitis visited Norway about fifteen years prior to the drawing up of Uchermann's statistics throws some light on the above, and speaks greatly in favour of the supposition laid down, (p. 27,) as to the influence which brain-diseases exercise over the