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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

others when they spoke and to speake himselfe that others might understand him It is somewhat observeable that a Priest was the undertaker I know not how but they have beene Inventors of many strange Arts which yet no great wonder if wee consider their recesse opportunitie and encouragements to study and all their advantages to promote a contemplative life And as they say of them who shall be Inventor and Owner of the Philosophers stone that he must have many good and pious quallifications So he that attemps such an exploite as comes neerer to a true miracle then those of the magi did to those of Moses as being an artfull shadow of a supernaturall and miraculous effect which could not bee done but by fasting and prayer it will bee necessary that he should Priest-like seriously and religiously set upon the worke since a Heathen would not have attempted such a businesse without first sacrificing to Mercurie for good successe He taught him to speake In teaching of Parrots and other Birdes that are imitatours of ma●s speech That man should be the teacher is not the matter for they will imitate the squeaking of Cart wheeles or any noyse they heare but in learning of an Articulate voyce so compleat as that of mans is there is a necessity that man should bee the teacher For man could not have discipline unlesse from Man because the active power of discipline exists in man onely for as man had the passive power of discipline granted unto him so it was necessary hee should have the active power also delivered unto him And what the active power ought to have beene wee shall finde in the quality of the passive power For men are chiefely disciplinable quatenus they have hearing therefore the active power must consist in something that may move the hearing and so effect it wherefore since sound is the adaequat object of hearing Man received a power for forming of certaine sounds which wee call the voyce and instruments to the Articulation thereof whereby speech is produced Indeede the first exercise of this discipline seemes to bee committed unto Women as being by nature more talkative and eloquent the flesh of whose tongue is soft and flexible for the forming of a sweeter voice and articulation for which very cause their tongue is broader whence it appeares by experience that not onely Birds that have a soft and broad tongue doe sing more acute and better but men also especially women whose tongues are softer are more talkative and also pronounce voyces more articulate then men by reason of the flexibility of their tongue proceeding from the softnesse thereof Did not all of us as many as are men learne first to speake of our Mothers or Nurses Hence it is that Plato and Quintilian are so carefull in their directions for the choise of a fit Nurse for Children that the tongue and speech may be rightly and distinctly formed And after the introduction of Colomes into Forraigne Countries have not the Children borne there reteyned the speech of their Mother Certainely Nature her selfe the Architectrix of things sagaciously foreseeing what was herein convenient for mankinde hath allowed Women this priviledge that they are seldome any where found mute And therefore Quintilian sayes that Children will prove mute if they be brought up by Dum●e Nurses Yet upon what occasion soever dumbnesse may happen there is no certaine judgement to be given of a childs being mute untill he bee three yeares old But that this Lord born deafe and dumb was yet taught to understand others when they spake and to speake himselfe that others might understand him and this without a miracle by the power onely of Art seemes to me plainely to contradict that supposed infallible sympathy of the nervs of hearing and speech that without controll or contradiction many Physitians have confidently affirmed to be the onely cause why a man deafe from his nativity is consequently dumbe for it had beene impossible if that Law of sympathy had beene perpetually binding to have recovered speech without hearing first for so runne the Lawes of occult Qualities and the Decrees of the Median and Persian sympath●sts whereas this Lord having got a paire of Eare-Spectacles before his eyes whereby the dependencie that speech had upon the eare was taken away There remained no signe of a sympatheticall league of silence contracted betweene the tongue and the eare But the tongue set at liberty proves free and being sui juris leaves the unprofitable eare and by Art enters into an Auditory league of amity and allyance with the Eye which now officiously becomes a succedaneum or Quid pro quo for the Eare. It must bee confessed that the effects of sympathy are very strange as appeares by rare accidents that have befallen the senses Camerarius not without admiration beheld William Prince of Orange who upon the receiving of a wound in his Neck lost his Taste And a French Souldier who by the like wounnd became mute for there is a double nerve proceeding from the third Conjugation which is inserted into the Larynx with one branch whereof the tongue is made apt for speech with the other Sapours are perceived That hee should loose his Taste is a lesse marveyle but that he should loose his speech who had his hearing good and his tongue untouched seemed saith Bodin incredible to me before untill we had found it true by experience The Instruments of smelling have a knowne sympathy with the Eare For wee see very often that when the nostrils and sense of smelling is impaired through a dull obtusenesse that the hearing is also somewhat offended likewise in sneezing when we blow our Nose and in holding our breath in our compressed nostrils who doth not forthwith perceive his hearing and eares really to suffer thereupon Of which saith Mercurialis in his Epistle to Varolius no man can devise a better reason then if he should state the instruments of smelling to reach on both sides even to the passage of hearing and so should affirme that the hearing is in some sort co-affected with them And indeed they who loose their smelling doe also very soone become somewhat deafe as you may easily perceive But whether from this sympathy we may finde any resolution of that Problem why those who are thick of hearing doe speake through the nose is not yet agreed upon Although here Mercurialis writing to Varolius about this matter sayes Hee may very well boast that hee hath hereby layd open a way for the explanation of many doubtfull and obscure effects But that there should be such a necessity of this common affection happening to the eare and the tongue as it is the instrument of speech not yet agreed upon to be a sense the faire flourish of an unsatisfying sympathy can give little assurance And I am the lesse affected with this elegant evasion of a nonplust Ignorance because they who become deafe through any disease though their voyce becomes hoarser yet they

to the braine then by the eare or eye shewing that a man may heare as well as speake with his mouth Upon which and other unlooked for discoveries I began in Idea to conceive the modell of a new Academie which might be erected in favour of those who are in your condition to wit originally deafe and dumb for which Edifice and Gymnasium having provided all kinde of materialls requisite I soone perceived by falling into discourse with some rationall men about such a designe that the attempt seemed so paradoxicall prodigious and Hyperbolicall that it did rather amuse then satisfie their understandings insomuch as they tooke the tearmes and expressions this Art justly usurpes for insufferable violations of their reason which they professed they must renounce before they could have faith to credit such an undertaking For the satisfaction therefore of such knowing men who yet are incredulous and too superstitiously devoted to the received Phylosophy I thought good to hint the Phylosophicall verity of this Art which I doe with the greater assurance having gained an unanswerable Demonstration from matter of fact for other matters hinted they must expect credit upon the like successe Neverthelesse heerein I shall not descend to exact particulars intending onely to present the I●chnography of this Art referring the inward contriving of accommodations and the method of operation to our intended Academy In the meane time for the enlarging of your Charter and to bring you into a neerer incorporation of society and communion with us I heere commend unto you the Accommodations this Art holds out wishing you all in good time a happy metamsychosis or transmigration of your senses that so at least by way of Anagram you may enjoy them all That learning first to write the Images of words and to understand the conveyances of a visible and permanent speech from that Hand A. B. C. you may proceed unto a Lip-Grammar which may inable you to heare with your eye and thence learn to speak with your tongue which benefits of Art when you have attained and are become capable of perusing this tractate whose argument is so new and strange that there was never so much matter concerning you presented under one object of the eye containing a narrative of your originall estate with the supplementall advantages thereof the novelty and inventive straine of this booke may at once delight and profit you which is the hopefull wish of Your officious Friend and Historigrapher PHILOCOPHVS AD SUBTILISSIMUM virum D. Ioan Bulwerum cognomento Chirosophum sub personâ Philocophi Surdis mutisque canticum novum cum discantu felicitèr canentem ABdita Naturae nobis miracula pandis Quae nescit Libris Plebs inimica bonis Quae doctos latuere viros latuere Platonis Discipulum quae Tu das Stagerita novus Instituis Surdos Mutos audire Magistros Dum Logicum faciunt mota labella sonum Sic nunquam frustra narratur Fabula Surdo Si detur Surdis posse videre sonos I.H. Oxoniensis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To his ingenious friend Philocophus on this Foundation of his intended Academie REjoice you Deafe and Dumbe your Armes extend T' embrace th'inventive goodnesse of a Friend Who heere intends for your reliefe to Found An Academie on NATVRES highest ground Wherein He doth strange mysteries unlocke How all the Sences have one common Stocke Shewes how indulgent Nature for each sence Wanting allowes a double recompence How she translates a sence transplants an Eare Into the Eye and makes the Optiques heare Inoculates an Eare with sight whereby It shall performe the office of an Eie Presents rich odours Tasted Viands Smelt And Sound and Light in a strange maner felt The sences Arts new Master-piece are taught T' exchange their objects by a new found thought The Deafe and Dumbe get Hearing Eies which breake Their Barre of Silence and thence learn to speake Words may be seene or heard W' are at our choyce For to give Eare or Eie unto a Voyce Where men by their transposed senses gaine This Anagramme of Art and Nature's plaine Amicitiae Artis Transcendentiae ergo Tho. Diconson Med. Templ A Table of such hints and notions as more directly concerne Deafe and Dumbe men That men born Deafe and Dumb have a kinde of significant speech and naturall Language and what that is Wherefore it is that Deafe and Dumbe men can expresse themselves so lively by signes That all Deafe and Dumbe men seeme to have an earnest desire to unfold their lips to speech as if they accounted their Dumbnesse their greatest unhappinesse That a man born Deaf and Dumb may be taught to heare the sounds of words with his eyes The strangenesse of that expression abated and qualified by proving a community among the Sences and their mutuall exchanging of objects And Hearing to be nothing else but the due perception of motion A notable example of Hearing sounds with the eye in a Spanish Lord who was borne Deafe and Dumbe The causes why men are borne Deafe and Dumbe various and unknowne Supposed by some to happen through a propriety of their place of birth An example seconding that opinion The opinion of Astrologers why men are borne Deafe and Dumbe That the sin of the Parents is sometimes thus punished in their children An example of Gods justice in a Boy borne Deafe and Dumbe That Deafenesse is sometimes ex Traduce and an hereditary evill Why Deafe men beget Deaft children Why the children of Deafe men are not alwayes Deafe Aristotles opinion that Dumbnesse is a privation incident to man only That Deafenesse and Dumbnesse may happen to other creatures also The causes why many in a Family prove oftentimes Deafe and Dumbe very darke and obscure Histories both Foreigne and Domestique of Deafenesse and Dumbnesse running in a bloud and many children of one man and woman proving so defective in their senses A very strange History of two twin Sisters borne Deafe and Dumb having but two eyes betweene them both living to old age Why those who are borne Deafe are consequently Dumbe The chiefe cause supposed by some to be a sympathy betweene the Nerves of Hearing and Speaking A twofold reason of their strict society and communion according to Bartholinus The severall opinions of Physicians touching the causes of Naturall Deafnesse and so consequently of Dumbnesse Both opinions of sympathy and privation of Hearing urged by some to introduce a consequence of Dumbnes upon Deafenes Varolius his Anatomicall inference of Naturall Deafenesse from Naturall Dumbnesse That to argue Deafenesse from Dumbenesse is no good way of inference The chiefe signe to distinguish naturall Deafenesse from that which happens through a disease The only true and undoubted cause why they who are borne Deafe are consequently Dumbe That men originally Deafe though they seeme to be Dumbe yet most part of them are able to yeelde some sound or inarticulate voyce That Dumbe folkes when they are angry will make a very great gabling noyse A

in al things the properties of Gold let men dispute whether it bee Gold or no So if we may by the favour of God have this Art so successefull unto us that a Deafe man may be brought to enjoy the benefite of an eare in his eye that is the eye to officiate for the eare let men dispute whether he heares with his eye or no for wee are not so magistrall in this matter as to have any thought of deceiving others with a vaine Philosophy of swelling words Observation II. HEe was borne Deafe and Dumbe Great are the Nation of those otherwise ingenious men who have fallen under this unhappy accident the causes being various and unknowne there are who suppose that this happens to some through the propriety of their place of birth Soranus affirmes that those who are borne in Ships at Sea are by a proprietie of their place of birth like Fishes mute M●nt●o confidently affirmes that by a proprietie of the place they who were borne within the walls of the Castle of Claramont proved dumbe as it happened to all the Baro●s that were borne there Astrologers say that Childe will be deafe that is borne when Mercurie is Lord of the sixt house and infortunate by evill aspects with Saturne chiefly if he be in th● sixt house Likewise they will have ●●at impediment in their hearing in ●●ose nativity Jupiter and Saturne bee both impedite and infortunate above the earth that is if they be retrograde or combust in evill places And if Mercurie be impedite of Saturne in a Childes nativity it doth hinder the tongue but it is worse when they be corporally conjunct together especially in the Ascendent or in the seaventh house and in the same signe with the Sun Mercurie being then Occidentall or if Mercurie be above the earth corporally conjunct with Saturne or else in an evill aspect of Saturne and in a dumbe signe called Signum mutum and also is unfortunate that is to say in an evill place retrograde or combust and peregrine that party then borne will have great impediment in his tongue or else will be dumbe and cannot speake Sometimes the sinne of the Parents are exemplarily punished in their children Dr. Joachim the brother of Camerarius told him he saw in the Court of the Lantgrave of Hesse a Boy deafe and dumbe so witty that hee could not wonder enough at his dexterity in executing the commandements that were given him for by a winke of the eye hee conceived of the will of the Prince and of his houshold The Lantgrave seeing him wonder at the sight hee told him You see this young Boy his use is to declare with a marvelous readinesse by gestures of his body and by motions of his fingers any new thing he seeth done in the Court or City He is an example of Gods justice for his mother being accused of stealing when shee went with childe with him used such an imprecation that if that which she was charged with was true her Childe might never speake when it came to be in the World but remaine Dumbe all his life To some this is an hereditary evill and an imperfection ex traduce But why Deafe men should get deafe children may be from that similitude which springeth from the seede in as much as it flowes from the whole oeconomy of the Body that is sometimes it flowes out more from the Father sometimes from the Mother from this plenty of provision proceedeth the similitude so some part in children resembleth the Mother another part the Father as that seede hath more copiously issued from the parts of either Parent And commonly when a Deafe and Dumbe man hath got his Wife with childe there is a solicitous expectation in their Friends whether the childe should prove Deafe and Dumbe or no For it falleth not out alwayes that the children of Deafe and Dumbe men inherit that imperfection of their parents as intailed upon them whereof the reason above mentioned may serve that is the seed of the perfect parent may be more luxuriant and predominant whereof I have known some examples What the issue of a Deafe and Dumbe man and woman would prove there hath beene no opportunity afforded to trie because few Philosophers have beene bidden to such a wedding The like reason may be why they should have deafe Children who are deafened by some disease or by reason of some over-potent object which hath destroyed their sense of Hearing Upon which a Quaere might be raised whether the children of those who dwell neere the Catarrachs of Nile whose parents are all deafe are not commonly borne deafe also rather then afterwards so made We doe not heare indeed that any of the brethren or family this Lord was of were unfortunate in the like defect although that hath beene the sad condition of many eminent Families Fernelius writes of a Senatour whose Wife being healthy yet all the children hee had by her were deafe and dumbe the cause he judgeth to be very darke and obscure Cardan speakes of a woman that had five and twenty children of two of which number shee was delivered within tenne moneths both deafe and dumbe which both lived and lived in his time the one with three Mola's the second with two not onely dead but putrified who while she went with them felt not her selfe as with her others but shee felt as it were a weight of lead in the bottome of her belly It being very likely that the Mola's growing to by reason of their frigiditie for they are as congealed blood did hurt their braines thence the hearing and so dulled the facultie of speech especially when they putrified Nor are examples of these sad accidents very rare among us such therefore as I have either knowne or by credible intelligence gained notice of from others I shall here annex conceiving it fit to enlarge the Forreigne story of Deafe and Dumbe men with such additionall notions The rather that wee may come a little out of these outlandish Writers debt and in some reasonable sort vie Historicall observations with them Sir Edward Gostwick of Wellington in the County of Bedfordshire Baronet a Gentleman otherwise very accomplished was borne deafe and dumbe hee hath attained unto writing which is a substitute of speech and from whence there lyes a way if well followed to the recovery of an Articulate voice Hence writing to them that are deaf and dumb may serve in stead of speech who therefore doe best begin to write and afterwards learne to speake The first invention of Writing was to make Verba visibilia missilia permanentia to remedy the defect of speech that vanisheth away is onely audible and cannot bee wrought into discourse but by two that are present together whereas this invention puts an eare as it were into the eye and presents our cogitations visible and legible writing being the later invention speech by it selfe signifies all our conceptions and writing signifies our speech for writing to words