OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE: 27763.1 A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, MEDICAL EDITED BY WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M. D., PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF THE MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM AND CLINICAL MEDICINE MEDICAL COLLEGE, PHYSICIAN-IN-CHIEF TO THE NEW YORK STATE THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE: A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, AND ANTHROPOLOGY. VOL. VI.] JANUARY, 1872. [No. 1. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. [The Original Department of this journal is not closed to articles, the views of which may be in opposition to those held by the editor. He does not, however, wish to be considered as indorsing any opinions unless enunciated under his own name.] ART. I.-The Psychical Status and Criminal Responsibility of the Totally Uneducated Deaf and Dumb. By ISAAC LEWIS PEET, A. M., Principal of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.' Nec ratione docere ulla suadereque surdis Quid sit opus facto, facile est; neque enim paterentur Nec ratione ulla sibi ferrent amplius auris Vocis inauditos sonitus obtundere frustra. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura, Book V., 1052-5. THE deaf-mute, as distinguished from one who is simply mute, is a person who, from the mere fact of want of hearing, does not possess the ability to express thought in articulate speech. Dwelling in a world of silence, sound awakens no responsive echo in his soul. Words which, thrilling nerves that excite the brain to action, call for an effort at least of imitation on the part of the child endowed with hearing, 1871. Read before the Medico-Legal Society of New York, November 9, |