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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    who concurred in the opinion of the company that any cure was hopeless, read the note communi- cating his perfect recovery on the Monday: on Thursday following, he was an hour in the stran- ger’s company, and during the whole of the con- versation he could not perceive the smallest defi- ciency or embarrassment of utterance. As the facts which we have stated are beyond doubt au- thentic, we must add, that the gentleman who made the discovery, and performs such cures, is alike entitled to liberality in professional remune- ration, and to the thanks of society at large. No. III. broster’s system for the cure of impediments in SPEECH. BY A PUPIL. [From the London Magazine for August, 1825.] St. James’s, June 13, 1825. Mr. Editor, — Having been requested a few weeks ago, through the medium of a friend, to give in a letter my opinion on the merits of the Brosterian Discovery, it occurred to me that a general sketch of the System, as far as is allowable, being made public, might be of public benefit. That letter is not so easily recoverable as another