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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    to commemorate the almost miraculous cure of his son. The removal of impediments of speech has al- ways been considered as the work of time and laborious exertion, and those who professed to have studied the subject most deeply, required the constant attendance of their pupils for months, and even for years. Mr. Broster s system, how- ever, is of a very different character. Some of his very striking cures have been performed aftei a single lesson, and, in general, a few days is all the time that he requires for effecting it. This ra- pidity of cure, indeed, is one of the most valuable features in his system. The hope of a speedy remedy encourages the patient to apply his whole mind to the system, and enables the poor, and those who cannot quit their professions, to avail them- selves of a discovery, which otherwise could have been of no benefit to them. Hitherto we have considered this new method as applicable only to the ordinary impediments of speech, but we have reason to know that Mr. Broster’s method embraces a much wider range. He has applied it to the cure of cases of weak ar- ticulation; he has, as it were, given the powei of speech to those who were supposed to be labour-