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LEFT DEAF AND DUMB 286 DEAF AND DUMB Holder's "Elements of Speech." Dr. John Wallis, Savilian Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, is generally sup- posed to have been the first Englishman to instruct deaf-mutes. In 1743 Pereira, a Spaniard, publicly demonstrated this new art before the French Academy of was established at Leipzig, for the edu- cation of deaf-mutes, a public institution which is still retained at Vienna and throughout Germany. About 20 years previously Thomas Braidwood had es- tablished near Edinburgh, in 1760, a deaf and dumb school on the articulat- HI DEAF-MUTE ALPHABET Scienc©6, which gave its testimony to the success of the method. About the same time the Abbe de I'Epee, introduced a system for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, which was taught with great success in the Royal Parisian Institu- tion. In 1779, through the labors of Samuel Heinicke, the great upholder of the vocal or articulatory system, there ing system. This was visited by Dr. Johnson during his tour in Scotland. The first public institution in Great Britain for the gratuitous education of the deaf and dumb was founded at Ber- mondsey in 1792 by the Rev. Messrs. Townsend and Macon. In 1817, the first American asylum for the deaf-mute was founded at Hartford under the su-