BULWER

John, a physician who flourished in England in the seventeentii century, appears to be entitied to the honour of having first pointed out a method of instructing the deaf and dumb. The work in which his method is explained is entitled, Philocophus, or the Deafe and Dumbe Man's Friend, exhibiting the Philosophical Verity of that subtile Art which may enable one with an observant Eie to heare what any Man speakes by the moving of his Lips. This work was published in 1648, whereas Will is, to whom the invention has generally been attributed, published nothing on the subject till 1670. In connection with the same subject Bulwer published a Chiro no mia, or the Art of Manual Rhetoric; and a Chirol(^pa, or the Natural Language of the Hand. A still more curious work is entitied An thro pom eta morphosis, in which he shows the astonishing variety of forms and garbs exhibited by man in the different ages, and among the different nations. BULWER liYTTON. See Lytton (Lord). BUM-BOAT, a small boat used to sell vegetables, ., to ships lying at a distance from shore.