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Deaf Deafness Dumb Mute
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ DEAF
~ DEAFDUMB
~ DEAFMUTE
~ DEAFMUTISM
~ DEAFNESS  id+ | LACKING HEARING |
            see> AURICLE  see> AUDIBLE
  DEAF has obscure GERMANIC roots and
  perhaps linked to DUMB
  med> DEAFNESS CAN BE DUE TO GENETIC
       MUTATIONS or DRUGS like STREPTOMYCIN
  LACK OF SOUND COMPREHENSION as in
  MUSIC DEAFNESS or WORD DEAFNESS ARE
  NOT EAR OR AURICULAR BUT CEREBRAL DYSFUNCTIONS
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