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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    fr / PRESENTED ^ [FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW.l The Education of the Deaf and (so-called) Dumb. (Two Papers.) By James Kerr Love, M.D., Aurist to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Langside, Glasgow; and Mr. W. H. Addison, Head Master of the Institution, and Associate of the College of Preceptors. [Read before the Society, 8th February, 1893.] I.—DPv. LOVE'S PAPER. Some three hundred and odd years ago, on a May day, two armies stood fronting each other on the slopes of contiguous hills south of the City of Glasgow. Before night the Battle of Langside had been fought, and the cause of religious and civil liberty in Scotland had scored a great victory. It is not now my business to describe the contest at Langside, nor its effects on Scottish History, but rather to make reference to that historic ground for the introduction of the subject of my paper—the Education of the Deaf in Glasgow. The institution for the instruction of those on whom the sjreat calamitv of deafness has fallen stands on the hill occupied by one of the opposing armies, the Victoria Infirmary has displaced the other; and one can hardly visit Langside, and think on that day and on this, without fervently hoping that the temper of the times has changed, that our civilisation is being leavened by charity and benevolence, and that the bigotry and oppression which make men fight have for ever fled away. But, if that be too much to hope for, it is not, I am sure, too much to expect that a company of Glasgow men and women will think kindly of, and listen interestedly to a few words spoken on behalf of, the poor children who live in the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb. Gathered in that building are 140 children, who have, with few exceptions, never heard a mother's song or the kind word of a father, who are strange to all music, and who must live always under an oppression of loneliness such as never, even for a moment, visits
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