tlemen, went to Wickham Market, where the young 

 woman then lived, whose case they thus describe : 



41 We have this day been at Wickham Market, to 

 satisfy ourselves concerning Margaret Catting. We 

 examined her mouth with the greatest exactness, but 

 found no part of the tongue remaining ; nor was there 

 any uvula. The passage down the throat is a cir- 

 cular open hole, large enough to admit a small nuU 

 meg. 



u Notwithstanding this she swallowed both solids 

 and iluids as well as we could do, and in the same 

 manner. Yea, and she talked as fluently as other 

 persons do. She pronounced letters and syllables very 

 articulately, even those which seem necessarily to re- 

 quire the help of the tongue, as d, 1, t, w. She read 

 to us in a book distinctly ; she sings very prettily ; 

 nay, and she distinguishes tastes, and can tell the least 

 difference either in taste or smell." 



* But is it possible to teach any one to speak, who 

 has been deaf and dumb from his birth ? 



It is. Dr. Wallis taught such an one to speak, 

 Mr. Daniel Whaley of Northampton. He was pro. 

 sent before the Royal Society, May 21, 1662, and did 

 there pronounce, distinctly enough, such words as 

 the company proposed to him : indeed not altogether 

 with the usual tone, yet so as easily to be understood, 

 In a year, which was the time he staid with Dr. Wal- 

 lis, he read over great part of the English bible, and 

 learned to express himself intelligibly in common 

 affairs, to understand letters written to him, and to 

 answer them. And in the presence of many foreigners, 

 he has not only read English and Latin to them, but 

 has pronounced the most difficult words in their lan- 

 guages, which they could propose to him. 



The doctor has since done the same for Mr, Alex- 

 ander Fopham, a gentleman of a fair estate. 



But we have an instance of dumbness cured in a 



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