Copy 1, Volume 7

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1834-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the body: but that if they were adults^ or full grown persons, at the time of the opera¬ tion, they were never able to utter a syllable. The truth of this observation was confirmed to me by the two following cases. Patrick Strai¬ ner and his son-in-law came to Harwich, in their way to Holland, the third of this month. I made it my business to see and examine them. The father told me he had his tongue cut out by the Algerines, when he was seven years of age: and that some time after he was able to pronounce many syllables, and can now speak most words tolerably well; his tongue, he said, was grown at least half an inch. The son-in-law, who is about thirty years of age, was taken by the Turks, who cut out his tongue; he cannot pronounce a syllable; nor is his tongue grown at all since the operation ; which was more than five years ago.^^ Sir John Malcolm in one of his visits to Persia, became acquainted with Zal Khan 'of Khist, who was long distinguished as one of- the bravest and most attached followers of the Zend family. When the death of Lootf Ali B 2