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JOHANN CONRAD AMMAN (1669-c.773o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 859 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONRAD See also:AMMAN (1669-c.773o)  , Swiss physician, was See also:born at See also:Schaffhausen in 1669 . After graduating at See also:Basel in 1687 he began to practise at See also:Amsterdam, where he gained a See also:great reputation . He was one of the earliest writers on the instruction of the See also:deaf and dumb, and first called See also:attention to his method in his Surdus loquens (Amsterdam, 1692), which was often reprinted, and was reproduced by See also:John See also:Wallis in the Philosophical Trans-actions (1698) . His See also:process consisted principally in exciting the-See also:AMMIANUS 85Q attention of his pupils to the motions of his lips and larynx while he spoke, and then inducing them to imitate these movements, till he brought them to repeat distinctly letters, syllables and words . The edition of Caelius See also:Aurelianus, which was undertaken by the Wetsteins in 1709, was superintended by See also:Amman . He died about 1730 at Warmoud, near See also:Leiden .

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