Category: Science - Biology
By the time this book will appear, nearly six years will have elapsed since I discovered the voice of the œsophagus, and almost five since I published a preliminary account of this discovery in a book entitled _The Basic Law of Vocal Utterance_.[1] This discovery, though the m...
It is my belief that the ordinary course of events is never interfered with; but that _great_ events may be inaugurated by unseen agencies and guided by unseen hands. The respon...
13. Part 13I wish it were in my power to at once fully explain, as far as I am able to offer any explanation at all, how it is _mechanically_ possible to express these four elements of met...
9. Part 9If language is capable of exercising so powerful an influence it must be more than a superficial acquirement. It must be woven into and interwoven with our innermost nature. Wha...
6. Part 6The knowledge of the reversion of the functional exercise of our organs of sense is of signal importance in connection with motion and vocal utterance, which always go hand in h...
7. Part 7I repeat that, to obtain a pure sound, the _thought_ underlying such sound or sounds must be _purely, clearly defined_. We cannot obtain a clear impression from a seal whose eng...
4. Part 4After having become acquainted with the cause of these motions, and having learned to control it in the interest of pure and perfect tone, the movements of the larynx and the re...
2. Part 2We are so much the slaves of habit that we become reconciled to any condition, almost, no matter how undesirable or absurd it may be. Thus biological science has been going alon...
5. Part 5"You may open the abdomens of living cats, guinea-pigs, and rabbits, and apply irritating chemicals to their exposed intestines, causing what you are pleased to term 'peculiar r...
10. Part 10These studies are meant to be purely objective, and have no concern with politics or policies, regarding undesirable immigration, or issues of a similar nature. But language is...
12. Part 12Without this half-suppressed fall of the voice, there would be no beauty, no charm, no soul in the English language; in fact, it could not exist. Words of two syllables, however...
8. Part 8All know what is meant by vocal sounds, yet few, I repeat, know what are simple sounds, though constantly used by everybody while whispering or uttering exclamations, while surp...
14. Part 14These twelve movements constitute one act of respiration during which inspiration and expiration for thorax and abdomen equalize each other. The first three movements of the abd...
1. Part 1By the time this book will appear, nearly six years will have elapsed since I discovered the voice of the œsophagus, and almost five since I published a preliminary account of t...
11. Part 11In _raising_ the tongue, a free passage to the œsophagus is obtained, while that to the trachea is obstructed. In _lowering_ the tongue, a free passage to the trachea is obtaine...
15. Part 15If I have expressed myself strongly, it is because I feel strongly the injury which has been wrought by this so-called "science" of the laryngoscopists. It has in thousands of i...