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Show I I ALIVE, BUT FM ONOb-NCED DAD. i Restoration of the SpeecU of a Mute CMI5 I Who Was Once Ppared For the Grava. After being mute for two years tha fittle 7-year-old daughter of Mr. aud V Mrs. F. A. Brook of Vineland, through I eeing the blood flowing from a cut on i 1 one of her finders, 6uddenly regained her LJ speech. The case is a remarkable ono j mid has excited the interest of physicians I end of those who are acquainted with i the circumstances of her affliction and i moEt remarkable recovery. Two years ago the little girL wiw , was then 5 years of age, suddenly lost 1 her power of speech. She was eating an j apple at the time and in some manner I dislocated ono of her teeth. She ran into H the house and threw herself en the II lounge, vlth blood flowing from her Jyi . mouth. She refused to answer &ay ques- T tions, and the inquiries of her astcaished f parents ouly elicited soi and moans. , I The next day the child was still mute I and also refused V) partake of any fc)d, 1 Her parents became alarmed, and paj' plcians were called in. They were un able to dLtgnose the Btrauge malady, '. Md the ch4 d grew worse. Medical skill 1 ns of no avail, and she grew weak and f evneiated. After several weeks the child , ! di d pparJitly, and the doctors pro- j co inoad ho aead and left. The little ) to- m was covered with a shroud and preparations for the funeral begun, I when sigr-s cf life were discovered in the seeming corpse. The girl sat up and with her fingers -L made signs indicative of her desire for food. From that mometrt she began to mend slowly and in thw course of a year Tegained her former good health and spirits. She was still, however, as silent , as a sphinx. Nothing could induce her to utter a word, and she continued in this condition until a 6hort time ago. She accidentally cut her finger while playing one c'i.y, and the red, blood r flowed from tho wound. Either the sight or the smell of the fluid seemed to have a strange effect upon the child, and that day marked the turning point in the history of the case. During that same night, while in bed, she startled her 6ister by speaking her name quite r , distinctly. Sho also uttered several oth . er words very plainly. Since then she ihas been improving daily and now can sarticulate quite plainly. Philadelphia Times, |