108 OF TIIK tblGE AND SPEECH. 



relations of similar instances by medical men in the Me moires 

 de VAcademic des Sciences, p. 6. 1718. Professor Thomson 

 found the speech little impaired after the bullets had carried away 

 more or less of the tongue.* Louis, Richter, Huxham, Bartholin, 

 Tulpius, it seems, mention similar cases. An instance of good 

 articulation after the loss of the apex and body of the tongue 

 quite down to the os hyoides occurred in this country. f 



* Report of Observation* made in the British Hospitals in Belgium, after 

 the Battle of Waterloo ; with some Remark on .Imputation. 



f Phil. Trans. 1/46, 



