History of James Mitchell: A Boy Born Blind and Deaf, with an Account of the Operation Performed for the Recovery of His SightJ. Murray, 1813 - 52 páginas |
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acquainted acquired a preternatural afford afterwards ALBEMARLE-STREET appear uneasy ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE ascertain attention attract his notice auditory nerve avidity and curiosity Blind and Deaf BOY BORN BLIND BULMER BULMER AND CO cataract cate chamber circumstances CLEVELAND-ROW clothes countenance crystalline lens degree of acute degree of gratification Desmortiers different colours distance DUGALD STEWART EDINBURGH elle employed examined excite expressed extremely eye-lids eyes with light F. R. S. EDIN fond habit hand head impression of light improve his sight interesting irascible JAMES MITCHELL JAMES WARDROP JOHN MURRAY knew lady London manner means measure the fingers mouth needle ness never took food observed occasion opake OPERATION PERFORMED organs of Touch out-houses particular peared placed pleasure preternatural degree PRINTED FOR JOHN pupil riband ring of keys seemed sense of Smell sense of Touch shoes showed sound span the wrist strangers substances teeth Touch and Smell waistcoat whilst yellow gloves young Mitchell
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Página 5 - When a ring of keys was given to him, he seized them with great avidity, and tried each separately by suspending it loosely between two of his fingers, so as to allow it to vibrate freely; and after tingling...
Página 2 - He used to hold between his eye and luminous objects, such bodies as he had found to increase, by their interposition, the quantity of light ; and it was one of his chief amusements to concentrate the sun's rays by means of pieces of glass, transparent pebbles, or similar substances, which he held between his eye and the light, and turned about in various directions. These, too, he would often break with his teeth, and give them that form which seemed to please him most. There were other modes by...
Página 17 - The membrane of the tympanum of both ears was punctured by Mr. Astley Cooper, with no benefit ; and several medical gentlemen examined his eyes, and endeavoured to perform some operations on them. In this, however, they completely failed, from the powerful resistance which he made to all their efforts to secure him, and hold the eye quiet. The lively remembrance which he seemed to have of these events, and the recurrence of the same circumstances attending his coming here at this time, made him very...
Página 33 - He expressed a great desire for a suit of new clothes, and it was signified to him, that his wishes would be complied with; and being allowed to make a choice, he selected from among the variety of colours a light yellow for his breeches, and a green colour for his coat and waistcoat.
Página 32 - ... operation; and though, from placing things before him, he evidently distinguished and attempted to touch them, judging of their distances with tolerable accuracy, yet he seemed to trust little to the information given by the eye, and always turned away his head, while he carefully examined by F his sense of Touch, the whole surfaces of the bodies presented to him.
Página 38 - On our arrival that evening, after a journey of seventeen or eighteen miles, he expressed great pleasure on meeting with his mother and the rest of the family. He made signs that his eye had been operated upon, that he also saw with it, and at the same time signified that he was fixed in a particular posture, alluding to the machine in which he had been secured during the operation. He has now learnt to feed himself, and to put on his own clothes. No particular object has yet attracted his attention...
Página 12 - ... gaining intelligence could admit. The senses he enjoyed, being thus disciplined, acquired a preternatural degree of acuteness, and must have furnished him with information respecting the qualities of many bodies which we either overlook, or are in the habit of obtaining through other channels. Perhaps the most striking feature of the boy's mind was his avidity and curiosity to become acquainted with the different objects around him.
Página 14 - It has occasionally happened, that visitors have arrived in a carriage, and, on such occasions, he has never failed to go to the place where the carriage stood, examined the whole of it with much anxiety, and tried innumerable times the elasticity of the springs. In all this he is undoubt-edly guided by the smell and touch only...
Página 22 - But if he was teazed or interrupted in any of his amusements, he became irascible and sometimes got into violent paroxysms of rage. At no other time did he ever make use of his voice, with which he produced most harsh and loud screams. It is not one of the least curious parts of his history, that he seemed to have a love of finery.
Página 31 - ... jolting. He appeared well acquainted with the furniture of the room, having lived in it several days previous to the operation ; and though, from placing things before him, he...