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ing. After a year's training (the detailed account of which is 

 most instructive) he is described as having learned to help and 

 amuse himself, and to refrain from biting himself, and from strik- 

 ing his friends, although the hands are still subject, at times, to 

 involuntary" movements. The sense of touch has developed to the 

 degree of recognizing about one hundred objects by their shape 

 and texture alone, without the aid of sight. He has also acquired 

 consciousness of the ordinary variations of temperature of water, 

 food, etc. He has been taught to recognize the typical geometri- 

 cal forms, and to cut them out of paper. He has visited the florists 

 daily, and learned to know and name about sixty different kinds 

 of flowers, all fragrant, thus appealing to the brain through still 

 another sense. This development of the special senses and of 

 volition was accompanied by a marked decline, not only of un- 

 controlled movements but of outbursts of temper, which had been 

 conspicuous. 



At the end of a year's training, concentrated mainly on the 

 hands, the special training of the eyes was begun, the history of 

 which is given in a second paper.* 



There was a lack of control over the movements of the eyes 

 quite comparable to that which had existed in the case of the 



Fig. 4.— Age, Eight Yeabs. 



Fig. 5.— Age, Nine Yeabs. 



hands. The boy was unable voluntarily either to hold his eyes 

 still or to direct them toward any particular object — rapid oscil- 

 lations alternating with periods of fixation upward and to one side. 

 In the training of these refractory organs the improved hands 

 were made to give most effective assistance. " What words can 

 not do," says Dr. Se'guin, " the hand can ; viz., it can present ob- 

 jects to the eye at the proper distance, at the proper opportunity, 

 and with the proper degree of insistence and pertinacity, even fol- 



* See "Archives of Medicine," December, 1880. 



