Progress of the Brosterian system for the effectual removal of impediments in speech, bad articulation, lisps, gutteral pronunciations, &c. : from which emanates an entire new art of reading and speaking / discovered by John Broster ... For the fourth year.

  • Broster, John, -1853.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Progress of the Brosterian system for the effectual removal of impediments in speech, bad articulation, lisps, gutteral pronunciations, &c. : from which emanates an entire new art of reading and speaking / discovered by John Broster ... For the fourth year. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    As we are not acquainted with the nature of Mr. Broster’s System, we cannot give any opinion of it as a scientific method. This important discovery has hitherto excited little general curiosity. The interest which it has called forth has been chiefly local, and confined to the relatives and friends of the persons whom it has benefited; but, as Mr. Broster’s pupils in- crease in number—as the remarkable cures which he performs become better known, it cannot fail to excite that notice which it so justly merits; and if its success shall continue to be as great as it has hitherto been, we have no doubt that the legis- lature itself will rank Mr. Broster among those public benefactors whose services entitle them to a public remuneration. No. II. [From the Dumfries Journal.] Important Discovery.—We recently received information, from unquestionable authority, that there is now in Edinburgh a gentleman, of high respectability, who has discovered a complete cure for that distressing malady, with which many are more or less afflicted, a stuttering or stammering