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NM.764.008
30 Apr 1764:12,13 (295)
London. . . The Paris Gazette gives us an account of a
phenomenon at Nantes, which greatly excited 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 following 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 even sings easily and
agreeably. This girl, named Maria Grellard, was born in the
parish of St. Hilary, near Montague, in Potou.
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