Papers on deaf-mutism / by James Kerr Love.

  • Love, James Kerr, 1858-1942
Date:
1893
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Credit: Papers on deaf-mutism / by James Kerr Love. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13. Joseph Swan, Kilmarnock, was born deaf. He had healthy parents who heard and spoke. His mother died. His father married again, and the second wife had a deaf-mute child. 14. Another case, this time drawn from the Institution, shows how Case 13 may have come about. In the Dick family there are 2 deaf-mute brothers, both born so; there are 5 hearing brothers and sisters; both parents hear, but the mother's father and 3 brothers were deaf and dumb. 15. Martha Douglas is said to have lost hearing by tuber- cular disease of the ear at 6 months. I have classed her as an acquired case, but a slight doubt is thrown on this by the note that two grand uncles had each a child deaf and dumb. 16. Wm. TurnbuU born deaf, but with hearing parents. Half brother and half sister of mother are deaf-mutes. 17. Annie Kerr has 7 brothers and sisters, all of whom hear Her parents hear, but she has a deaf-mute cousin. 18. Maggie Ralston has 3 brothers and .sisters who hear ; her parents hear, but she has a deaf-mute cousin in the Institu- tion ; her state at birth is described as doubtful. 19. Donald Currie has 7 brothers and sisters, all of whom hear; the parents hear; one child now dead was deaf-mute, and a cousin of the boy's mother was born deaf. 20. John M'Leod, born deaf, and with 1 deaf and dumb brother in a family of 6 in all. Father and mother full cousins. 21. Wm. M'Murdo, probably born deaf, with 3 others in the family who all hear. Father and mother cousins. 22. Geo. Harvey, born deaf, with 1 brother with very defective hearing. Father's great grandmother was great great grandmother to boy's mother. 23. Wm. Potter, born hearing, having lost hearing at 8 years from measles. Father and mother cousins. 24. In the G. family, 2 children, a brother and sister, in a family of 6 are deaf-mutes. Both are called acquired cases, 1 due to constitutional disease, the other to hydrocephalus. I refer to this as a case of multiple deafness, due probably to syphilis, and likely to give rise in the lay mind to an impression that the cases are congenital. In 1835 Kramer* stated that no case has become known in which deaf-mute parents have produced deaf-mute children. Instances have been supplied of this direct heredity by various writers since Kramer's time. Cases 1 to 6 in my list are all instances of congenital deafness occurring in families where The Nature and Treatment of Diseases of the Ear.
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