The condition known as deaf-mutism is congenital or due to innate defect in about one-half of all the cases in Great Britain.
No greater error is committed than the confusion of deaf mutism secondary to ear disease with the congenital type.
The deaf-mutism here considered is the result of congenital conditions not produced by disease.
It is not unlike the ordinary stupor in the fact that there was intense inactivity and mutism with great tenseness.
During the night she is reported to have varied between stiffness with mutism and a more relaxed state.
Then the condition changed, inasmuch as the marked resistance ceased entirely, and the mutism gave way first to slow and low answers, and later to much freer speech, though the inactivity improved only gradually.
In this connection we should mention that Gucci[27] points out that stupor patients with mutismof long duration may, when requested, read fluently and then relapse again into complete unreactiveness towards auditory impressions.
Her mutism and refusal of food she was unable to account for.
She was soon admitted to a clinic and then showed mutism and catalepsy.
Varies between mutismwith resistance and more relaxed inactivity.
By January, 1914, the picture changed somewhat and she then presented the following state for an entire year: The mutism persisted and indeed became even more absolute, and she began to wet and soil constantly.
Myers believes that in nearly every instance mutism follows stupor and is merely an attenuation of the latter process.
An effort to speak would cause pain in the throat of a case of mutism and, sometimes, when a distressing memory was sought after under hypnosis, physical pain would wake the sleeper.
As has been noted frequently in this book, mutism is a common residual symptom of the benign stupor.
His view is that pains tend to preserve the mutism and amnesia, so that there are “inhibitory processes” causing the stupor, which prevent the patient from further suffering.
Meckel says that in the families of tradespeople, who are constantly exposed to a damp unhealthy atmosphere or other injurious influences, deaf-mutism occurs most frequently.
Moreover, Meckel has found that deaf-mutism is more frequently met with in flour-mills than elsewhere.
Wilhelmi tried to ascertain by means of his statistics in what proportion deafmutism occurred in towns and in the country, and found that it preponderated in the country.
Uchermann[126] has reported a case of recurrent attacks of mutism at intervals of five or ten minutes in a man of sixty-eight, examination of whose larynx during the seizure showed the glottis to be in spasm.
Deaf-mutism is so varied that frequently two unrelated deaf mutes may have hearing children.
Deaf-mutism is due to a defect; but the nature of the defect is different in different cases.
Some attention has been given to the study of effects upon mentality and personality of physical defects such as deaf-mutism and blindness.
Re treatment of mutism, Chavigny remarks that the principle of treatment for mutism is quite different from the principles of treatment of paralysis.
Muck states that he has applied the ball method, not only to cases of aphonia, but to cases of mutism and deafness, with success.
His mutism did not bother him, as he thought he had always been mute.
This case appears to belong to the B group ofmutism cases, according to the classification of Myers, namely, to the group in which the effects are psychical rather than physical.
Psycho- and neuropathological observations on the wounded and contused in the present war; mutism and deaf-mutism in wounded and contused; demonstration in four cases.
The following day he was active, making beds, but was mute (there was a case of mutism in the same ward).
Mutism and deafness due to emotional shock and etherization.
Yet mutismpersists unchanged for many months unless it is treated properly by some form of suggestion.
It shows a want of appreciation as to the real bearings of our problem, if philosophers appeal to the fact that children are born without language, and gradually emerge from mutism to the full command of articulate speech.
During this period there has not been a single case of idiocy, insanity, epilepsy, deaf-mutism or even of typhoid fever on the island.
The extent to which the connection between consanguineous marriage and deaf-mutism has been studied is indicated by a table given by Mr. Huth, in which are set forth the results of fifty distinct investigations.
Where deaf-mutism exists it seems to be intensified by consanguinity, but where it is not hereditary it is not caused by consanguinity.
A very complete family history showing deaf-mutism is given in Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aphasia; dumbness; muteness
