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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30108	Philocophus, or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips : upon the same ground ... that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue / by I.B., sirnamed the Chirosopher.	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing B5469; ESTC R3977	76,261	240

is as words to cogitations Yet this order is not of necessity that speech must bee learnt first and afterwards Writing should succeede to signifie our words rather then words writing there being no naturall necessity for it so that the contrary cannot bee done But it happens rather by reason of the facility and because men that are deprived of no●● of their senses are apt sooner to speake then to write the tongue being sooner fitted by nature for that employment then the hand for this But the cleane contrary may be done as appeares in the atchievement of this honourable Gentleman and others mentioned in this book For as they who have their hearing d●● as the readyer and better way b●●in 〈◊〉 speech so they who are deafe doe best begin at writing Therefore neither of them hath a naturall necessity but it seemes by the nature of the thing that the reason and account of speech and writing is the same but that they have a greater facility of speaking who enjoy all their senses but they who want their hearing may have writing in stead of speech and the notice of things accrues to them by sight as to others by hearing So that speech is as it were a silent and audible writing and writing is a visible and permanent speech and withall so missive that where the eare is absent we can send our mind by writing to a friend why not then when the faculty of hearing is wanting as in deafe men may we not send a message of intelligence to his eye in writing since the eare and eye are knowne to exchange objects without any robery in case of necessity transferring their sensitive rights one unto another The youngest brother of the said Sir Edward Gostwick is in the same condition being yet an excellent Limbn●r invited to that art by his Genius or some signalitie of spirit observed in him Painting and Limbning next to writing having beene ever thought of excellent use and to afford singular contentation to those that are borne deafe and dumbe And therefore Q. Pedius the Nephew of Q. Pedius a man of Consular degree and one that had tryumphed by Caesar Dictator made Co-heir with Augustus being dumbe by nature Messala the Oratour of whose familie the Grandmother of the childe was descended being carefull how the Boy should be brought up after mature advise and deliberation thought good that he should by signes and imitation be trained up in the Art of Painting And Augustus Caesar approved of his judgement and advice herein and in truth the young Gentleman being apt thereto although he dyed a youth was growne a great proficient in that Art Sir John Keyes Master of the Ordinance to King James had two Sisters who were both borne Deafe and Dumb they could write and were very ingenious to imitate any kinde of needle work they saw Sir Miles Fleetwood hath two handsome Gentlewomen to his daughters both borne deafe and dumbe De La Barre the rich Dutch Merchant who lived at Eeling in Middlesex had two daughters born deafe and dumb they were both marryed A Friend of mine who was once in their companies at Brainford their Husbands also being there told me he did much admire at their dexterity of perception for by the least motion of their Husbands countenance or hand they presently conceived of their meaning Master Freeman of London Skinner had two daughters both deafe and dumbe One Master Diet a Parson in Staffordshire hath a Brother and Sister both deaf and dumbe One Thomas Xing Farmer of Langley in the County of Essex had by one woman a sonne and three daughters all deafe and dumbe One in Osmaston within a mile of Darby had foure sonnes and all of them were borne deafe and dumbe One John Gardiner of Thaxted in Essex hath a sonne and daughter both deafe and dumbe his sonne Robert Gardiner is a Tradesman here in Towne and one of the most notable examples I have discovered for proofe of the feeling of sounds and whom to the satisfaction and admiration of some Friends of mine I have shewed and exposed to a philosophicall view and tryall And as I am informed by a Merchant of credit living in London who hath a sonne deafe and dumbe there was in Lincolneshire one Master Dallison a Gentleman that used grazing who had three sons born deaf and dumb who made them all 3 Graziers and they proved the craftiest in that way that the Country ever bred for they were very expert at their pen which they managed in all their affaires with singular readinesse using it as it is indeed for a kinde of supplementall speech I am informed by an accomplisht Gentleman that knew them a learned Friend of mine they were so accurate at the pen that they could write the Creed in the compasse of a farthing which he hath seene fairely so written by them One Master Adams in the East of Kent had two daughters very handsome proper Gentlewomen which were all the children he had and they were both borne deafe and dumbe A Husbandman of Sherington within a mile of Newport in the County of Buckingham had a sonne and a daughter both borne deafe and dumbe A Husbandman living at Tilstone in Cheshire about seven mile from Chester had two daughters Twins that were borne deafe and dumbe having but two eyes betweene them one of the eyes of each of them being originally blinde they lived both to be old women Some Cheshire men of my acquaintance who knew them both affirme that they had a very strange and admirable nimblenesse of perception both to understand others and to deliver their owne mindes by signes which happened without doubt unto them through the marvelous recompence that nature affordeth in such cases For having but one eye the sight of that was certainely very accurate Aristotle is of opinion that deafnesse and dumbnesse are privations onely hapning unto men Yet there be who are of another minde for that Horse who never moves nor prickes up his eares at any noise or sound and useth to cast back his eares is deafe and that horse who in the companie of those he hath used to travell with never neighes is dumbe Yet if a Horse were foaled deafe hee would not be consequently dumbe because the speech of beasts is naturall unto them and hath no dependencie upon the eare and so it cannot be excluded by a privation of hearing through any naturall deafenesse Observation III. HE was borne deafe and so consequently he was dumbe They who from their first conformation and birth are deafe they likewise are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or at least live 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hence surdus quasi seoridus i. sine ore and mutus quia eo sensu minutus The chiefe cause why they who are borne deafe are consequently dumbe is supposed to be the sympathy betweene the instruments of hearing and speaking the reason of whose strict society and communion is not knowne to all men which according to

Copious humidity tenaciously infixed about the organs of the voyce is no new thing since many destitute of speech in their youth in the progresse of their age by the helpe of Art have been made vocall the excrementitious moysture being wholly spent If this saith he be true which I take to be most certaine what should hinder but that our sick man who remained mute so long his body consum'd and the superfluous moysture by the force of the torrid and feaverish heate exhausted should speake his vocall organs being made more fit to performe that office And Valescus de Tarant● affirmes that many children who had impediment in their speech have been restored by their Adolescencie Mercurialis reports of Maximilian the sonne of Frederick the third Emperour that he was dumbe untill the ninth yeare of his age and yet notwithstanding afterwards he proved a most eloquent Prince There are stories extant of certaine dumbe-men who by reason of some extraordinary fright and passion have received the gift of speech Valerius Maximus reports that one Aegles Samius a dumbe wrestler when the title and reward of a victorie he had obtained was taken from him being kindled with indignation his passion unlockt his Tongue and gave him speech Iustin and Herodotus report that when the walls of Sardis were taken by an onslaught a certaine Persian with his drawn sword set upon Croesus unknown unto him as if he had meant to slay him whom when Crasus engaged in the slaughter of the enemie neglected to avoyde his dumbe sonne Athys deeply apprehending the danger his father was in is said to have broke out into these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. h●mo ne perimas Craesum where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Piscator observes pathetically shewes the affection of a troubled speech not a little encombred with feare for when he should have said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his feare and indignation precipitating his speech made him say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And from this first time of his speaking he ever afterward enjoyed the benefit of speech Pausanias reports that one Balthus a dumbe man wandring up and down in a Desert met with a Lyon and was strucken with so exceeding great feare and trepidation that thereupon he obtained the guift of speech And in this case they must be frighted as well as angred for a mixt passion which causeth a Miscellaneous motion of the native heate is onely efficacious in this businesse for the conflict that ariseth out of both these passions mixed to wit feare and anger hath unequall motions of the native heat for it is revoked and drawn in by feare and the Animal faculty moves to its center and againe by anger it is plentifully moved in the way of expansion to the circumference so that the native heate is variously mixed and exagitated more then it could be affected with one of them alone The native heate becoming hereby more vigorous and rowzed up with these affections is so prevalent that it is able to tame the vitious humours of the body and to drie up and discusse the over much moysture imbecility that ariseth from the importencie of native heat and if the Nerves of speech are resolv'd with much moysture or the heads of the Nerves by which the voluntary motions of speech are performed are 〈◊〉 with thick 〈◊〉 and tough humours 〈…〉 cut digest and bre●th them out 〈◊〉 consequently take away Sta●●●●g 〈◊〉 Dumnesse Hence you Civil Lawyers whose Pandects are stuffed with the subtile notions and observations both of Natures regular Acts and Prevarications affirme that some who have been mute from their Nativity have recovered their speech and indeed the manner of their recovery and assumption of speech is very strange for if their eares have been open and the impediment only in the tongue that removed they instantly fall to speaking as if they had perfectly learnt it before which inference I make not onely from these Histories and reason but somewhat a like case in Ca●pa●ella who reports that he saw a Boy foure yeare old who had always fe●●d filth and suppurations in his eares neither was h● yet able to speake He was thought dumbe yet he heard a voyce and sound and tooke in hand to doe what he was commanded but there hapned unto him cho●●rique and watry dejections for the space of three daies and forthwith his eares were healed and he began to speake well as other Boys of the same age and so proceeded to a greater perfection of speech being when Campanell● writ this relation seaven●y a● sold therefore sayth he there are also naturall Criseses without any disease for he was otherwise well and had a very good stomack and purgation especially if it be naturall takes away all mischievous evill of nature He was taught to speake In this case of most deafe and dumbe men where the tongue is commonly free from any impediments as this young Lords it seemes was if any speech had beene naturall to man why did not hee speake without teaching or why do not all deafe men whose tongues are not restrained by nature from voluntary motions sufficient to declare such a faculty without teaching come out with it the most unanswerable argument against the naturality of any language is this that they who are naturally deafe speak not at all from whose force once alledged there is no evasion Montaigne indeede is very confident that if speech be not naturall to man it is not necessary and he would faine evade this argument by imputing deafe mens continuing mute not onely to their incapacity of speaking from their naturall deafnesse but also to the simpatheticall league betweene the nerves of hearing and the tongue but that will not bring him off for the truth is they speak not because they cannot heare to learne He believed also that if a child bred in some uncouth solitarines far from haunt of people though as he confesseth it were a hard matter to make tryall of it would no doubt have some kinde of words to expresse and speech to utter his conceites for saith he it is not to be imagined that Nature hath refused us that meane and barred us that helpe which she hath bestowed upon many and divers other creatures for my part I think that Nature hath dealt no more discourtiously with us in this then she hath in not arming our heads with hornes since she afforded us hands to f●ame any kinde of Armour we stand in neede of for if any speech were naturall to man he could not be docile and apt to learn other tongues because that which remained within would prohibit any extraneous as therefore God made man altogether without Science that he might be apt and ready to all Arts so there was a necessity that he should he made voyd of any speech that he might learne them all and if without a teacher as many other things speech should be borne with men in good sooth if they should learne another