PROFESSOR STANICH AND A PATEA RESIDENT.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 346, 10 August 1878, Page 4

PROFESSOR STANICH AND A PATEA RESIDENT.

The following extract from the JVeiv Zealander of the Ist instant, will be read with interest in Patea County, as the young gentleman referred to, lias for some months past been residing at Carlyle, and is well known : “It will probably be bad news to a good many people to learn that important business will compel Professor Stanicii to leave Wellington by the next steamer for Sydney—probably about the end of tlic present week. During his brief sojourn here, the Professor has effected a considerable number of cures or partial cures, and amongst them the most remarkable, probably one of the most wonderful cases on record, is that of a young English gentleman now resident in this city. He has been deaf and dumb from the age of tw r o years ; this misfortune having resulted from severe illness. He Is now 21 years of age, and during the 19 years he has never heard. The most eminent aurists in England prononneed bis case a hopeless one, but, learning of Professor Stanicii as be was staying at the same hotel here, he consulted him. This was little more than a week ago, but the result has been marvellous. The sense of hearing has been restored so far, that the sufferer is now able to hear what is said in an ordinary loud tone close to his ear. Accustomed nowhere to acquire information only from printed or written characters, pronunciation is a stumbling block, and ho is Still unable to attach the correct meaning to many of the vocal sounds he hears. On Sunday last, this young gentleman experienced two novel sensations. He went to church, and for the first time in his life experienced the charms of music, being able distinctly to hear the tones of the organ. In the evening, during the storm, he for the first time heard Heaven’s artillery in the thunder which was so severe that night. Since Sunday, one of the young gentleman’s greatest pleasures has been to sit close to a musical box, to the airs of which he is now able to beat correct time. Professor Stanich is confident of being able to completely restore the sense of hearing in this case. Several others, almost as wonderful cures, might be recorded, and on account of those afflicted with the fearful misfortune of deafness, wo regret that the Professor’s stay in this city is likely to be such a short one.