People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — Deaf Phenomenons. [ARTICLE]

Deaf Phenomenons.

In showing how one sense is sharpened to supply the loss of another, Dr. S. Millington Miller writes that Alexander Hunter, of the land office at Washington, though entirely deaf, spelled without mistake 150 words read to him from the dictionary. He had become able to read the motion of the lips of those adressing him. This faculty is not rare among the deaf, and by means of it, some of them, like Mitchell, the chemist of the United States patent office, have been able to understand the lectures necessary for their graduation at college.