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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

DALGARNO, George (1626 – 1687)

1626 – 1687

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1680 CE

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Didascalocophus or the deaf and dumb mans tutor, to which is added a discourse of the nature and number of double consonants: both which tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects.

DALGARNO, George (1626 – 1687)

Dalgarno considered that the deaf had an advantage over the blind in opportunities of learning languages. He invented an alphabet for the use of deaf-mutes.