The child's voice : its treatment with regard to after development / by Emil Behnke and Lennox Browne.

  • Behnke, Emil, 1836-1892.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The child's voice : its treatment with regard to after development / by Emil Behnke and Lennox Browne. 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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    PREFACE. “ The chief need seems to be the collection of facts well observed by many persons. I say by many, not only because many facts are wanted, but because in all diffi- cult research it is well that each apparent fact should be observed by many ; for things are not what they may appear to each one’s mind. In that which each man believes that he observes, there is something of himself, and for certainty even on matters of fact, we often need the agreement of many minds, that the personal element of each may be counteracted.” From Sir James Paget’s “ Opening Address ” to the International Medical Congress, held in London, August, 1883. [Transactions of the Congress, Yol. I. p. 115.] Oue attention having been called to the fact that the subject of the Child's Voice had not received sufficient attention from us in Voice, Song, and Speech, we resolved to supply the deficiency in a future edition of that work by way of appendix. While turning this matter over in our minds, we heard it stated, in a lecture given at the beginning of last year by a a