Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-13
MAKES DUMB TALK.
Albanian Says He's Able to Mako
 Blind See and Lame Walk.
BY MUSCULAR COORDINATION

BY MUSCULAR CO., CORONATION Lad of Defective Mental Development
 Without Power of Articulation and
 Having All Earmarks of InbeciIitN
 Alleged to Have Been Cured. ',
 Albany, N. r., Jan. 13.-To make the dumb to talk, the deaf to hear, the blind to see, the lame and halt to walk and to clear the darkening mists from minds diseased or undeAloped is the pretentious claim of an unpretentious citizen of Albany, Charles Morris Campbell. That he has accomplished this marvellous feat in at least two cases here is testified to by physicians of repute and that he has done so in numerous other cases is stated by MT. Campbell to be fact. He has never attended medical school. All that he knows of anatomy and that most mys- terious and batfing part of the human body, the nervous organization, he has learned by patient toll extending over more than twenty years.
 Mir. Campbell calls his method mus cular coordination" Perhaps a bet ter phrasing would be coordination of the muscular and nervous organiza- tions." At the basis of his theory is the belief that abnormality, the term employed to designate the shortcom- ings in form or operations of the hu- man system, is due merely to the fact that through some unaccountable ac- cident before or after birth one or more of the myriad parts of the hu- man organization are not maintained in original harmony.
 Corrects "internaI Deformities."
 MT. Campbell goes further than the medical profession in that he holds that internal deformities or deficiencies, ei. ther of muscles or nerves, exist even oftener than external deformities, and 1t is the latter class of abnormalities which his system of muscular co-or- dination corrects. In this cey he has effected two cures" for lack of a bet ter word, which local physicians whose attention has been called to them de- clare to be little less than wonderful. Mir. Campbell says he has many more similar cases to his credit than these two, both of which have been verified.
 The first and most interesting is that of boy, now aged seventeen and who has been under Mir Campbell's treatment since last March. The boy is the son of an. eminently respectable family of Albany. He was born dumb or at least without the power of artic- ulation, and he appeared also to be almost completely deaf. Imbecility in its well known forms was plainly marked in his face and conduct. At times he became violent and was a menace to his playmates and members of his family even when a mere child. Physicians here and elsewhere tried in vain to cure him, medicine did no good, and he was given up as hopeless.
 Jawbones Were Misshapen.
 When Mir. Campbell took hold of the case about ten months ago he discov- cred that the main suture of the unfor- tunate youths head overlapped in- stead of being "dovetailed" in the nat ural way. His iawbones were mis- shapen, the convexity of each being unusual, and the front teeth overlap ped. giving him an almost hideous ex- presslon. Although then sixteen years old. the boys mental development was that of an infant of three.
 This arrested mental development had Its counterpart in certain defects of the bodily structure The heart beats averaged only fifty-eight to the minute. whereas they should have then averaged about those of an adult, or seventy-two. The tongue. was thin and narrow. and he was unable to protrude 1t from his mouth more than an eighth of an inch. It was also "tied."
 Started Heart Action.
 By first arousing the boys interest and affection Mir. Campbell was en- abled gradually to teach him to con tract and expand the smaller muscles of the upper part of his body. This was kept up for weeks before any positive effects were manifested. Finally the teacher discerned that the boys heart action was beginning to become normal. This was the first sign for which Mir Campbell was look ing. He knew that this meant better supply of blood to the brain aud the consequential stimulation there of the nerves that from birth had been vir- tually inactive Soon the overlapped suture was lOosened and fell into the proper place. and the jaws assumed approximately their natural shape, with the teeth spresaing far apart in- stead Of being overlapped, as they had been from their growth. Then speech came. slowly. haltingly. hesItatingly. but none the less it was distinct artic- ulation. The tongue is now almost normal
 Ambidextrousnes was developed along with other startling revelations ef the cure" The boy has been taught to write his name. and he writes if uffte as well with fhe Jeff