or, A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who is Born Deaf, May Learn to Speak. By the Studious Invention and Industry of John Conrade Amman , an Helvetian of Shashuis , Dr. of Physick. Imprinted at Amsterdam , by Henry Westein , 1692. And now done out of Latin into English, by D.F.M.D. 1693. London , Printed for Tho. Hawkins, in George-yard, Lumbard street , 1694. Price bound One Shilling. To his most Approved Good Friend Mr. PETER KOLARD, the Author, with all Submission, Dedicateth this his Treatise o

Candid Reader, In these few Pages, I expose to thee openly and ingenuously, by what means I can learn the Deaf, (and because they were born so) the Dumb to speak articulately , and easily to understand others also when they are speaking, so as they may be able both to read, and to understand a Book, or Letter, and to discover their own Minds, either by Speach or Writing. How important a Benefit is this? How advantageous is the not hearing supplied by this Art? If Envy, or the detestable greedy D

An Inquiry into the Nature of a Voice, and in what respect it differs from the Breath . Let no Man presume, that he shall ever attain to this noble Art, if he remain Ignorant in what it is that the nature of the Letters, as well in general, as special, doth consist; for it was this very thing which gave occasion to the composing of this small Treatise: Wherefore, before I treat of the manner of instructing Deaf Persons, I shall bring into examination, First, the material part of the Letters , vi

Expounding the Nature of the Letters, and the manner how they are formed . Hitherto we have treated concerning the Voice and Breath , and of the manner of the formation of both of them, in general; now let us see how the said Voice and Breath are, as a fit Matter for them, framed into such or such Letters ; for the Voice and Breath are alone the material part of Letters , but the form of them is to be sought out from the various Configurations of those hollow Channels, thorough which they pass;

Teacheth the Method its self, by which such as are Deaf, and consequently Dumb, may learn to Speak. What hath been hitherto said may enough suffice to observant Readers , inasmuch as the Fundamentals of the whole Artifice, are therein contained; but least the curious should complain, that I have only made their Mouth water, I shall ingeniously discover to them what in four Years time, wherein I have endeavoured to instruct some Deaf Persons, I have observed what is worthy, and most necessary to

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