A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech.
- John Thelwall
- Date:
- 1810
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![derangement, will be found, upon analysis, ascri+ bable to moral causes; and, upon experiment, to be capable of moral remedy. soins _ My illustration of this theory would be more perfect, if I could feel myself at liberty to. state one case, in particular, of clear and palpable Amentia, which has fallen under my private treat- ment, in the metropolis ; and,in which, it was evident to me, upon the first appearance, and after very little inquiry, that certain educational causes, con- spiring with certaim constitutional predispositions, had occasioned, partially —a non-developement, and, _ partially—a perversion of the animal and mental energies ; and, in which, the imperfection of speech, was a symptom and consequence only (tho there _ was, indeed, some little mal-conformation of the mouth) of the want of habitual attention, and of the non-developement of the connective and in- ductive faculties of the mind :—a case in which 0 have happily succeeded, not only in superinducing: a completely intelligible and tolerably perfect ut- terance, but in expanding. and methodizing, to a considerable degree, the dormant powers of inte]- lect. But tho the particular object of this ex peri- _ Inent eannot be decorously identified, in so public.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33089449_0155.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
