Physiology
The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On the Mechanism of the Human Voice" and three London University lectures at King's College on "The Brain in relation to Speech and Song." I have endeavoured to place this...
The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On the Mechanism of the Human Voice" and three London University lectur...
2. Chapter 2In speech, and more especially in singing, there is an art of breathing. Ordinary inspiration and expiration necessary for the oxygenation of the blood is performed automaticall...
3. Chapter 3[Description: Fig. 9.--_Description of the laryngoscope and its mode of use_.--The laryngoscope consists of a concave mirror which is fixed on the forehead with a band in such a...
4. Chapter 42. _Aspirates_.--The resonator is constricted at one of the points mentioned so that the current of air either expired or inspired rushes through a small slit. Here again we may...
5. Chapter 5What has determined the predominance of the left hemisphere in speech? I can find no adequate anatomical explanation. There is no difference in weight of the two hemispheres in...
6. Chapter 6There is no doubt that persons who become deaf from destruction of the peripheral sense organ late in life do not lose the power of speech, and children who are stone deaf from...
7. Chapter 7Macaulay, Lord, 79 Mach, "Analysis of Sensations," 79, 90 Marie, M., 73, 76 Marseillaise, 106 Memory, visual, 79, 80 Mouth, 43, 44 Müller, Max, "Chips from a German Workshop," 8