Dysphonia clericorum or clergyman's sore-throat : its pathology, treatment, and prevention / by James Mackness.

  • Mackness, James, 1804-1851.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Dysphonia clericorum or clergyman's sore-throat : its pathology, treatment, and prevention / by James Mackness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and touching eloquence of heartfelt truth, zealous and gifted men have spent their best days and their best powers in the effort to rouse their fellow-creatures to duty and happiness. The result of these varied exercises of the gift of speech has been to raise England to an eminent degree of social, moral, and intellectual greatness, which is yet, as we trust, to be but the stepping-stone of further advances. But if such be the precious results of human eloquence when employed for truth, it ought not only to hold a high rank in our esteem, but to call forth our best efforts to retain and extend the blessing. It is not, however, the object of the present work to treat of the methods by which the public speaker may best cultivate his powers, but to point out how he may best preserve them from disease or regain them when impaired. It is to guard the public speaker from physical disability, and not only those who declare the sublime truths of revelation, but those also who employ their eloquence at the bar or in the senate, or use their voice much in singing. The pulpit, however, especially claims our attention, for never was there so great a need or demand for preachers : population rapidly increases, new churches are built and thronged with dense masses of hearers, and for every thou- sand within the walls of a sacred edifice there are tens of thousands without. A natural result of this state of things is, that the most zealous and valuable of the ministers of religion feeling most deeply the necessity of exertion are led to make efforts of an exhausting and destructive nature
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