Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 557.5

GEORGE DALGARNO (1626?-1687) Didascolocophus, or, The deaf and dumb mans tutor, to which is added a discourse of the nature and number of double consonants both which tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects. At the theater 1680 [6], 132 p. 16 cm.

A linguistics writer rather than a physician, Dalgarno’s Didascalocophus was one of his last publications. It was an attempt to position the language of the deaf within sematology, the science of signs and language.

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Cited references: Morton, 3350; Krivatsy, 3051; Wellcome II, p. 427