Cadmus, or, A treatise on the elements of written language : illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy, with an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and confequently dumb, to speak

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornton, William, 1759-1828, author.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phonetic alphabet--Early works to 1800.

Phonetic alphabet.

Deaf people--Means of communication--Early works to 1800.

Deaf people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 pages) : illustration.

Place of Publication:

1793

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

892813482