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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    my conviction of its efficacy—on the very best grounds, further experience and further improve- ment in my power of speaking. The difficulty I complained of has almost wholly vanished ; and it is the good-nature of my friends alone, which at times reminds me that I had once a very disagree- able impediment. Gh D. December 19 th, 1825. No. IV. [From Blackwood1 s Magazine, Dec. 1825.] The writer of these observations, before he became Mr. Broster’s pupil, had been under the care of several gentlemen who professed to cure impediments of speech. These all failed in their attempts, because they were ignorant whence the impediment proceeded. But Mr. Broster dis- covers, with almost intuitive acuteness, the parti- cular cause of his pupil’s impediment 5 and this, it will be owned, is a very necessary step towards removing it. To proceed in the first person— When I first became acquainted with the most prominent feature of Mr. B.’s System, I was much disappointed in it—I mistook it for a simple elocu- tionary process. But, in fact, this prominent feature is only simple in principle ; if rightly and c 2