Volume 1

Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893. / prepared for the Volta bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.

Date:
1893
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Credit: Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893. / prepared for the Volta bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Bonet, and Carrion, in Spain; Wallis, Holder, and Baker, in England; Van Helmont and Amman, in Holland; Pasche, Kerger, Eaphel, and Lasius, in Germany; Fay, Pereire, and Vanin, in France. Some of these teachers, as Bonet, Wallis, and Amman, as well as other men of the period who were not teachers, especially Dalgarno in Scotland, published treatises on the subject which are still of practical value. But while the achievements of these teachers demonstrated the truth of the theory propounded GIROLAMO OABDANO. (Pram an eiii/ravlng by Oio. Pavcui, a pupil in the Bayal InttituHon for Deaf- Mutes, Milan, 1867.) by Cardano nearly four centuries ago, it is only within the last century and a half that the human conscience has been aroused to the duty of putting the theory into prac- tice for the benefit of the deaf generally. The first great impulse in this direction was given by the benevolent and disinterested Abbe de I'Epee, whose school for the deaf, established at Paris about 1760, speedily became famous throughout Europe. At nearly the same time, independ- ently of De I'Epee and of each other, schools were begun