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BNL.764.013
19 Apr 1764:13 (3139)
London. Jan 21. The Paris Gazette gives us an account of a
phaenomenon at Nantes, which greatly excites the curiosity
of the people of that city. It is a young woman of
nineteen, who speaks without a tongue. After the small-pox,
which she had at eight years of age, her tongue fell into a
state of putrefaction, and entirely rotted away. During the
two first years which followed this accident she never
spoke, nor had any tone but like other dumb people: at the
end of that time she began to speak, and asked her mother
very distinctly for victuals; and has ever since preserved
the use of her speech, and even sings easily and agreeably.
This girl, named Maria Grestard, was born in the parish of
St. Hilary, near Montagne, in Potou.
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