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London, England, 1840-05-09 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY CURES OF

THE DEAF AND DUMB.

Dr. Turnbull's mode of restoring or developing the
senses of Bearing and sight, is undoubtedly the most
wonderful discovery of the age. On more than one
occiision we have laid before the public accounts of the
miraculous cures of which v‘ c have actually witnessed
the performance, and which, we hesitate not to confess,
had we net seen we could scarcely have believed. How-
ever, as too much publicity cannot be given to a dis-
covery calculated to confer upon many human beings
blessings scarcely inferior to existence itself, blessings
without which life lacks its chief value, a discovery by
which those excluded by the absence of sight or hearing
from the most desirab'e intimacy and communion with
the external world are admitted to enjoyments pre-
viously unknown to them, to receive the light of Heaven
with all delighting- revelations, and hold free converse
with their kind—as too much publicity cannot be given
to such a discovery as this, we unhesitatingly lay be-
fore the public the wondrous facts which we witnessed
on last Wednesday. Two patients, recommended to D .
Turnbull's care by the Rev. Dr. M'Kinley, of Kilmar-
nock—one named Margaret Shields, aged nine years,
whose parents thought she had lost her hearing when as
nfant by fever—the other named Mary Wilson, aged thir-
teen years, of Templeton Burn, Kilmarnock, whose pa-
rents say she was born deaf and dumb—were introduced
into the room where we attended to witness Dr. Turn-

bull's operations. Into the ears of each of these chi!-
dren the- operator poured a few drops of white liquid
and added a small bit of lint to prevent its escapa.
They were then allowed to sit quietly for about half an
hour, when the Doctor slowly and silently approached

first the one and then the other, with his watch in
his hand ; and in both cases, no sooner did he come
within two or three yards of the patient than her
eye indicated a feeling of surprise, and a moment
after, as the ticking of the watch became more dis-
tinctly heard, she uttered an exclamat'on of delight and
assumed an attitude of most anxious attention, appr-
'Truly desirous thoroughly to enjoy the new sensation.
Some simple souads were next uttered by the Doctor's
assistant, and were immediately repeated by the child
upon whom the experiment was tried. Words were
next spoken in a simihar manner, and ttith a similar re-

stilt, and even whole sentences, after being; pro_
nounemi by Dr. Turnbull's assistant, were repeated by
the patient, %Oto, only half an hour before, wts both

deaf and dumb. The child, of course, evinced no con-
sciousness of the meaning of th.: words, but seemed
to utter them from the delight of exercising a new
faculty. Such a wonderful result astounded us. As
language would altogether fad to convey an adequate
idea of the emotions we experienced, we state the sim-
ple fact, which, indeed, needs not any extraneous em-
bellishments to heighten its interest.

We have given the name and address of the Rev-
Gentleman who recommended the children, in order
that the sceptical may have an opportunity of ascer-
taining their condition previous to the operation we have
just described.—Morning Advertiser.
[We have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the
above well-merited observations of our liberal Contem-
porary, who has omitted to add that people afflicted are
flocking from all quarters, and many from the Conti-
nent, to Dr. Turnbull, and departing in gratitude
and joyfolucis of heart at their happy relief.
We think the Goverament ought to step
forward and purchase this invaluable discovery, for the
general benefit of mankind. If the man who caused a
blade of grass to grow where none ever grew before
was deemed a public benefactor, how much greater is
the glory of him who unveils the beauty of day to the
blind, bestows the charm of speech on the dumb, and
wakens the harmony of sweet sounds to the deaf ?
ED. SUN.]