Human vocal communication using spoken language

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The disorders of speech / by John Wyllie.

Speech and voice : with X-rays of English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, soprano, tenor, and baritone subjects / by G. Oscar Russell.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a distant three-quarter view of the Hall and Chapel, looking east, the Infirmary in the foreground left. Coloured drawing by C. White, 1786.

Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.

Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck dumb, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by C. Tinti, 1771, after A. del Sarto.

Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by W.H. Mote, 1846, after J. Franklin after J.F. Overbeck.

Alphabeti verè naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineatio. Quae simul methodum suppeditat, juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, sed et ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant / In lucem edita à F.M.B. ab Helmont.

A woman with two serpents holding her finger to her lips; representing prudence. Etching, 16--.

Voice training in speech and song : an account of the structure and use of the vocal organs and the means of securing distinct articulation / by H.H. Hulbert.

John the Baptist preaches in the wilderness. Etching by J. Goupy after S. Rosa.

A treatise on aphasia and other speech defects / by H. Charlton Bastian.

A young homoeopathic doctor converses with his patient. Coloured photolithograph.

The speech of monkeys / by R. L. Garner.

Die Störungen der Sprache : Versuch einer Pathologie der Sprache / von Dr. Adolf Kussmaul.

Schizophrenic voice and thought.

Anatomy and physiology of speech / Harold M. Kaplan.

The speech of monkeys / by R.L. Garner.

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Speech

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Images about Speech

Works from the collections

The speech of monkeys / by R. L. Garner.

Die Störungen der Sprache : Versuch einer Pathologie der Sprache / von Dr. Adolf Kussmaul.

Schizophrenic voice and thought.

Anatomy and physiology of speech / Harold M. Kaplan.

The speech of monkeys / by R.L. Garner.

Speech

Images from the collections

Images about Speech

Works from the collections

The speech of monkeys / by R. L. Garner.

Die Störungen der Sprache : Versuch einer Pathologie der Sprache / von Dr. Adolf Kussmaul.

Schizophrenic voice and thought.

Anatomy and physiology of speech / Harold M. Kaplan.

The speech of monkeys / by R.L. Garner.

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