Practical lip-reading for the use of the deaf / by E.F. Boultbee.
- Boultbee, E. F.
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Practical lip-reading for the use of the deaf / by E.F. Boultbee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![CHAPTER II. History of Lip-reading as Applied to the Deaf Mute. It is difficult to say how far back the Oral System reallj^ dates, but with respect to our own country we are not without indications that it was known to a slight extent as early as the seventh century. The Yenerable Bede (673-735) gives,, in his Ecclesiastical History, the quaint and pathetic account of a deaf and dumb youth who was not only taught to speak by St. John of Beverley, but was also by this medium converted to Christianity, by obtaining his pupil's attention, and causing him to imitate the movements of his lips and tongue. The following is Bede's description of the mode adopted : Hoiu Bisho]] John Cured a Dumb Man hy Blessing Him (a.d. 685). Bishop Eata died, and was succeeded in the prelacy of the church of Hagulstad by John, a holy man (afterwards St. John of Beverlej^), of whom those that familiarly knew him are wont to tell many miracles:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21506504_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
