The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-23

ton # the city physicians. Discus
sion upon the paper on ''Paediatrics
was deferred until later.
DIR. Brummell Jones, of Kansas
City, read very interesting paper
prepared by him upon neurology and
psychology.
A. Ohmaun Dumesnil, Of St.
Louis, delivered well-prepared
paper upon common parasites of the
skull.
DIR. NJ. H. Post, of St. Louis, one
of the managers of the Missouri State
school for the blind, addressed the as
ISOLATION upon that worthy institution.
DIR. Post said it was less than
HUNDRED YEARS AGO
since the first attempt to improve the
condition, usefulness and enjoyment
Of the blind was undertaken in Paris.
Seventy years ago the first school for
the blind was established by Samuel
G. Howell in Boston. The Missouri
school for the blind was established in
1851. DIR. Post dwelt particularly
upon the point that the school is not
an ASYLUM where the inmates are
kept in confinement because they are
eneumberances upon society by their
unfortunate conditions. Instead of it
being an asylum it is school in the
fullest sense of the word, where liter
AZURE and handicratt are taught the
pupils. Pupils can enter the literary
department between the ages of nine
and twenty-five and there is no limit
to the age in which admittance can be
gained to the handicraft department
In the former department board and
tuition are free, in the latter tuition
only Is free. The literary course
given at the school includes
everything but drawing that is
taught in the public schools-such as
mathematics, music, literature, etc.
In the handicraft department they
make brooms, do sewing, joiners
work, etc.
THE BRAIILE SYSTEM
of raised characters are used for the
teaching of reading, music, etc. BY a
typewriting machine recently invented
by Frank II. Hall of the jacksonville,
Illinois, school for the blind, an ex-
pert blind pupil can write letters with
the marvellous rapidity Of seventy
words per minute. BY the same ma
chine and the Use of metal plate
from which to reprint the matter
the Missouri school for the blind has
the works of almost all the noted men
Of English letters in its library. They
did have system of stenography but
that has been superseded by the phon-
ograph. The method of printing any
book for the blind pupils library is to |
have the book read into monograph |
and then it is transcribed onto the
metal printing plates by a pupil on the
Hall machine. Thus the blind man
becomes equally as familiar with the !
great authors as the seeing. DIR. Post |
exhibited quite a number Of
the blind pupils, appliances and pro-
including the Hall type
writer and printing machine. The
mechanism of the machines and ap-
planes are simple, vet wonderful,
and the work of the sightless still
more marvellous. DR.. Post called the
of the members of the
to the fact that there en-
iste,l a prejudice with some parents
against sending their unfortunate
children to their school because thew
fancied it sort of an asylum for the
of those to whom the
world was dark. He appealed to the
doctors to help eradicate these I'M
fortunate errors and prejudice |
and assist in helping to bring those to !
school, who will thereby have the sun |
light thrown into their mind. and
souls, though they are devoid of it
physically by reason of their sightless
eyes.
The morning session adjourned for
dinner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At the afternoon session DIR. A. ID.
Williams of St. Louis, read a paper
On treatment of granulated sore eyes"
md DIR. Frank B. TIFFANY of Kansas
City. upon ''deignosis and prognosis
If cataract"
DIR. X. S. kelso of Joplin. read an
interesting paper upon abdominal
surgery.
At the conclusion of these papers a
general discussion Of the various
,apers read was entered into.
There will be an evening session.
)ne of the interesting features of the
Meeting is the fine display of surgei-
al instruments and medical supDlies-