A letter to Henry Cline, Esq on imperfect developments (sic) of the faculties mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic aon on the treatment of impediments of speech.

  • John Thelwall
Date:
1810
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Credit: A letter to Henry Cline, Esq on imperfect developments (sic) of the faculties mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic aon on the treatment of impediments of speech. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iumh—Trihule to a Nolle Institution^ 84. Case oj young female at Maidstone^ 85. Case of a Child hlint from the operation of the i?ioculated small-pox, and supposed to have been rendered Speechless by the same cause, 86. Case of a poor Man, speechless from Epilepsy a?id orgajiic Im^ lecility, 99. Contradistinguishing phcenomena—Inquiry how far the faculty of Speech the cause or the cojisequence of intellectual Superiority, 101. Design of a systematic treatise on the distinction of physical and moral Idiocy^ 102. Obstructions in the ivay of such designs—the trade of Lite- rature—prejudices, ^c. 103. Further communications from Mr. Gough-^-Case of a Child rendered speechless by seclusion and indulgence, and afterwards attaining the use of speech, by being placed under new circumstances, 106. Curious instance of moral Idiocy from Whitens Natural History of Selborne, ]10. Further facts—illustrations from Anciejit Hisiary, —- Savage of Aveyron — conjee- tare relative to the Son of Croesus, 115. Case of moral Idiocy, ^c. 116. Ijtadequacy of tlie mere propensity to imitation for developemeni of human faculties, 123. Ap- plication to parental irfatuation^ 124. Original differences of facility and aptitude require different modes of stimulus and management—-occult causes—anatomical indications, 125. Case of two children reiulered speechless to a very protracted age by habit and imitation, 12/. Case of per- manent speechlessness from temporary deafness, 128. Dr. James of Carlisle—-Ca^e of privation of Speech from Epi- lepsy, 133. Case of general disorganization of the Senses ; from the influence'of ihe same disease, 138. Case of speech- lessness in the neighbourhood of Rochester, from complica- tion of physical causes, ^c. 1 io. General and practical inductions from the preceding Cases, 142. Case of Im- pediment from Amentia, 143. Proposal for treatment of such cases, 144. Conclusion—Molives for the present ad- dress, 148. P.S. Opinion on a Ca.ic of Defective utter- ahce. from partial Deafness, and supposed Deficiency of general Faculty, UK \