Union of physiological and elocutionary science

1

Temporary aberration from scientific pursuits

2

Uses of retirement

3

Discovery of the physical principle of rhythmus (Milton and Dryden)

4

Numbers of the Paradise Lost

8

Application of the discovery to treatment if impediments-Harmony of utterance and composition-Oratorical utterance-Health, etc.

9

Case of three brothers in Brecknock, with enunicative impediments

11

Treatment and Cure

13

Causes of delay in more extensive application of the principle

14

First idea of a scientific course of lectures on elocution

15

Difficulties and obstructions

16

Lectures and experiments in Sheffield, Leeds, York, and Hull

18

Confirmation of my theory from musical science-elocution of Greece-Steele's Prosdia Rationalis

20

Unreasonable neglect of English elocution by English scholars

26

Consequent inanity and degradation of English oratory

27

Application of my principle to the speechless and the stammerer

28

Process of cultivation and development-obligations to professional and scientific characters

29

Complication of tones in the modulation of the human voice

31

Communication from Mr. John Gough, on the sonorous vibrations of the chest

35

Accuracy and practical consequences of Mr. Gough's theory

40

Experiments in confirmation of the theory

43

Resumption of the progress of diffusion and development of the science

44

Case of a young gentleman at Birmingham with defect of palate and uvula

46

Artificial palate-advantages and inconveniences

48

Elocutionary treatment and remedy

49

Case of a gentlemen with complicated impediment, recommended by the former, ibid. Operations on the fraenum-Opinion of Dr. Denman, etc

50

Cases of four young gentlemen in Doncaster with original constriction of fraena

51

Whether stammering, stuttering, etc. ever immediately ascribable to organic defect or malconformation

53

How far such defects may be remote or incidental causes of such calamity

54

Brutality of schoolmasters, etc. Operation of terror

55

Nervous and hereditary impediments

56 & 59

Complication of moral and intellectual causes in certain species of impediment, and exclusive operation in others

57

What descriptions of impediment may and what may not be referred to simple organic causes

61

Contrast between the phaenomena of these and of such as are ascribable to mental embarrassment and habitual misaction

62

Case of a young lady in Edinburgh-treatment and cure

63

Influence of mental causes-management of the passions, temper etc. Action and reaction of physical and mental causes

65

Parallel and connection between certain cases of impediment, and certain approximations towards idiocy and degrees or tendencies to mental derangement

67

Parallel between certain opposite phaenomena of impediment and certain constitutional diseases of excessive and of defective irritability

69

Impotency of mere medical treatment of impediments

70

Application of the general principle to other cases of defective development and partial derangements of the faculties; power of educational treatment to avert or remedy such calamities

71

Recurrence to the subject of organic impediments-operations for the hare-lip, simple and complicated

72

Artificial palates-Mr. Flood (the Irish Orator)-hints to dentists

73

Elocutionary treatment requisite after the operation

76

Development of the powers of existing organs, and substitution of the actions of one for another

77

Resumption of more extensive view of the subject-development of the organic powers and faculties in general

78

Indolent despair, criminal negligence and inconsistency

79

Anecdote

81

Cases of mere speechlessness, contradistinguished from those of the deaf-born dumb-tribute to a noble institution

84

Case of a young female at Maidstone

85

Case of a child bline from the operation of the inoculated small-pox and supposed to have been rendered speechless by the same cause

86

Case of a poor man, speechless from epilepsy and organic imbecility

99

Contradistinguishing phenomena-Inquiry how far the faculty of speech the cause or consequence of intellectual superiority

101

Design of a systematic treatise on the distinction of physical and moral idiocy

102

Obstructions in the way of such designs-the trade of literature-prejudices, etc.

103

Further communications from Mr. Gough-case of a child rendered speechless by seclusion and indulgence, and afterwards attaining the use of speech, by being placed under new circumstances

106

Curious instance of moral idiocy from white's Natural History of Selbourne

110

Further facts-illustrations from Ancient History,--Savage of Aveyron-Conjecture relative to the Son of Croesus

115

Case of moral idiocy, etc.

116

Inadequacy of the mere propensity of imitation for development of human faculties

123

Application to parental infatuation

124

Original differences of facility and aptitude require different modes of stimulus and management-occult causes-anatomical indications

125

Case of two children rendered speechless to a very protracted age by habit and imitation

127

Case of permanent speechlessness from temporary deafness

128

Dr. James of Carlisle-case of privation of speech from epilepsy

133

Case of general disorganization of the senses-from the influence of the same disease

138

Case of speechlessness in the neighbourhood of Rochester, from complication of physical causes, Etc

142

Case of impediment from amentia

143

Proposal for treatment of such cases

144

Conclusion-motives for the present address

148

P.S. opinion on a case of defective utterance from partial deafness and supposed deficiency of general faculty

151

Vindication and Illustration of the Rhythmus of Milton

159

On the improper Elision of te Vowel in the customary modes of printing and reading English verse

168

Further explanation of the physical principle of rhythmus-Examination of a passage in Steele's Prosodia Rationalis, on the Cause of the delight received by the ear from such successive sounds exclusively as follow each other in definite musical proportions

177

Brief Sketch of an entire course of Lectures on the Science and Practice of Elocution

180

More particular Sketch of the Physiological portion of the Course

183

On the Musical properties of English Syllables

193

Poise or Thesis and Arsis

194

Percussion

195

Loudness and Softness

196

Force

197

Accents:--confused misapplication of the term by modern grammarians

197

Ben Jonson's accurate definition

200

Varieties of English Accent

201

Dr. Denman on the fatal consequences of cutting the bridle of the tongue

205

An attempt to ascertain the circumstances under which that operation may be necessary or proper

207

Correction of certain misstatements relative to the Abbe de l'Epee and his institution for the Deaf and Dumb

214

On the impropriety of place the Deaf-born Dumb and persons who have Impediments of Speech in the same seminaries

224

Sketches of the tone and tune of celebrated Actors

227

Communication from Mr. Gough on the subject of Cretinage or Alpine Idiocy, etc.

235

Some Account of the Institution in Bedford-Place, and the oratorical and Historical Society established in that Seminary

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