The Errors of Mind Healing

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Scriptural Deaf and Dumb Deaf-Mutism; Inclusive of Those Who Were Poisessed In taking deaf-mutism and those who were possessed of an evil spirit as reported in Holy Scripture it must be done with regard for our present knowledge and advanced medical science compared with that of ancient times....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Scriptural Deaf and Dumb Deaf-Mutism; Inclusive of Those Who Were Poisessed In taking deaf-mutism and those who were possessed of an evil spirit as reported in Holy Scripture it must be done with regard for our present knowledge and advanced medical science compared with that of ancient times. DEAF-MUTISM is the lack or loss of speech due to congenital or acquired deafness, which may be of congenital or acquired origin. In congenital deaf-mutism the precise condition to which it is due cannot be determined. This subject presents an opportunity of the theory of reversion as affecting types of degeneracy. It may be owing to lack of development in some part of the organ of hearing, deformities of the fenestrae of the labyrinth, hydrocephalus, or pathological changes in the course or origin of the acoustic nerve. The acquired form may be due to middle-ear sclerosis, merosis of labyrinth, and auditory neuritis meningitis, or cerebritis. The tympanic and labyrinthal cavities may be entirely obliterated by connective-tissue and osseous proliferation. If the hearing is lost under the fifth year there is with rare exception no speech, because it has usually not been acquired, while speech which has already been acquired later in life may be more or less perfectly retained after hearing is lost. However, it is many times observed that even in deaf-mute infants the primitive words mama and papa only are uttered. It is known that dumbness has followed the loss of hearing after speech was acquired. THE ABILITY TO ARTICULATE words gradually declined, until nothing more than mumbling and mouthing of unintelligible sounds remained. In about 50 per cent of deaf-mutes the semi-circular canals are affected, which accounts for their peculiar, straddling gait, the feet wide apa...