ITARD, Jean Marie Gaspard (1774 – 1838)
1774 – 1838
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1801 CE
#4969.1
De l’éducation d’un homme sauvage, ou des premier développemens physiques et moraux du jeune sauvage de l’Aveyron.
A pupil of Pinel, Itard pioneered in the attempt to educate a young “wild boy” who had lived since infancy entirely apart from human contact. In adapting the methods of teaching deaf-mutes to his extraordi…
1821 CE
#3364
Traité des maladies de l’oreille et de l’audition. 2 vols.
First of the modern textbooks on diseases of the ear, this work did much to establish otology on a firm basis. Itard described startle tests for the hearing of children and malingerers, and he developed an acumeter.