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to by three worthy persons, one Benjamin Boddington, 

 Turkey merchant ; William Notcutt, a minister ; and 

 William Hammond, an apothecary. The case of Mar- 

 garet Cutting has the honour to figure twice in the 

 Transactions of the Royal Society of London, the first 

 of these accounts having been read in 1742. Miss 

 Cutting herself testifies in a letter to her ability and 

 happiness at being able to speak perfectly ; and one 

 might have been gallant enough, had the times and 

 days been nearer our own, to have congratulated her 

 on the power of exercising a feminine privilege despite 

 the untoward accident which had deprived her of the 

 organ of speech. 



Readers of that most useful little text-book, Huxley's 

 " Physiology," will recollect that the learned author 

 describes in detail certain recent cases in which, in the 

 absence of the tongue, the power of speech has been, 

 on the whole, well exercised. Mr. Nunneley, the 

 famous surgeon of Leeds, gave an account of a case 

 in which his advice was sought in 1861. The subject 

 of this memoir, whose tongue had been removed for 

 disease, was keeping a public-house in Wakefield in 

 the year just named, and Mr. Nunneley remarks of his 

 speech, that " casual observers would only suppose he 

 had some little impediment in his articulation." 



Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Huxley, and others saw the 

 subject of Mr. Nunneley's memoir. All the letters of 

 the alphabet were distinctly repeated to Sir Charles 

 Lyell, although, curiously enough, the word " Leeds " 

 was pronounced with difficulty. Mr. Huxley found 

 that this man could not pronounce " 1's " and " d's " 

 initial and final. Thus " tin " he pronounced " fin ; " 

 "toll," "pool; 11 "dog," "shog;" "dine," "vine." 

 The letters / and d, Mr. Huxley adds, require the tip 

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