Science of voice production and voice preservation : for use of speakers and singers.

  • Holmes, Gordon
Date:
1880
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Credit: Science of voice production and voice preservation : for use of speakers and singers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    and vegetable; digestibility; errors in diet causing dyspepsia, resultanl voice troubles ; inexpedience of vocal exercise after eating : corpulence; its invariable association with shortness of breath, physiological reasons of; meat of combating obesity by diet: condiments, precautdonsto be observed in the use of: tobacco, its effect on the con- stitution and on the throat: drink; tea, coffee, cocoa; alcohol, amount that may be taken habitually without injury, deterioration of voice from excess of, barmfulness of frequent small quantities. Exercise; necessity of, tu health] desirable daily extent of, training, etc.; advisa- bility of limited gesticulating in public speaking. Care of the skin; its functions and relations to respiration; attention to clothing; baths and bathing; cosmetics. Climatic influences : hot climates j sea air; miasma; cold climates ; cold and damp, their effects on the voice ; tem- perate climates, their sudden variations; mountain air. Index of Subjects