A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . ngs, like abellows, perform their part in the process of speaking, best, whenplentifully supplied with air. This is an important fact, and should4 38 ELOCUTION. be remembered, not only by stammerers, but also by those who haveoccasion to read or speak in public. Loud speaking, long-continued,with the lungs but partially distended, is very injurious to theseorgans : it is apt to occasion a spitting of blood, v. hich is not unfre-quently a precursor of pulmonary consumption.
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . ngs, like abellows, perform their part in the process of speaking, best, whenplentifully supplied with air. This is an important fact, and should4 38 ELOCUTION. be remembered, not only by stammerers, but also by those who haveoccasion to read or speak in public. Loud speaking, long-continued,with the lungs but partially distended, is very injurious to theseorgans : it is apt to occasion a spitting of blood, v. hich is not unfre-quently a precursor of pulmonary consumption. But loud speaking,with proper management of the breath, is a healthful exercise : be-sides strengthening the muscles which it calls into action, it promotes the decarbonization of the blood, and, consequently, exerts asalutary influence on the system generally. [See additional re-marks, in Appendix at the end of the volume, where will be foundan account of the new surgical operation for the radical cure ofstammering, which has been performed, with more or less success,both in Europe and in this country.] SECTION PITCH. ITCH is the degree of the eleva-tion of sounds. As pitch regards the elevation of sounds,it respects their acuteness and gravity. Iuse the term pitch in its widest significa-tion. — In the science of music, it is usednot only in the sense in which I employ it,, but it also has a special application: in thelatter, it is applied to the medium note, the regulating note towhich instruments are brought by the act of tuning. When ap-plied in this sense, it is termed concert-pitch. The note which hasbeen adopted, by common consent, as the pitch-note, is A, the opennote of the second string of the violin: it is written in the secondspace of the treble staff. A lax division of pitch is into high and low ; in otherwords, into acute and grave; (those notes being calledhigh, or acute, which are above the natural pitch ofthe voice ; and those low, or grave, which are b
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