ID
0496
Nationality
English
British
Occupation
Physician
Writer
Summary
Hearing. Wrote the first major English-language work discussing the subject of deafness and its accompanying language problems: Philocophus, or The Deafe and Dumbe Man's Friend (1648).
References
The Conquest of Deafness, p.54-55; Arnold on the Education of the Deaf, p.12-13.
Dates
1606-1656