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.

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    ( 2] ) that lie makes it a part of his profession to enable men, intended for the church and law, to speak impressively and audibly, for a great length of time with comparatively little exertion. I am here only offering a few remarks on the Brosterian System, for a fuller account of which, I refer the reader to Blackwood’s Magazine for January, 1825, and to the London Magazine and Review for August, 1825, No. 8. Art. 5. But let me add, that Mr. B.’s System is often highly con- ducive to the pupil’s health. In many cases, the person troubled with defective utterance is con- tinually impairing his constitution, by using other energies for the production of sound, than those furnished him for that purpose—other energies, which, having also their own individual functions to perform, are seriously injured by this increase of employment. But Mr. Broster, by causing the organs of speech to undertake their own duty, re- lieves those parts of the frame which have been wearied and agitated by unnatural exertion, and prevents the further progress of an evil which has learned really was, namely, that I was not heard. I am now, I be- lieve, very well heard, and go through the duty with satisfaction and without much exhaustion.—August, 1824. H. M.” Mr. Broster has pei'mission to give reference to several others persons ivho have been cured in this department of his System.