| Union of physiological and elocutionary science | 1 |
| Temporary aberration from scientific pursuits | 2 |
| Uses of retirement | 3 |
| Discovery of the physical principle of rhythmus (Milton and Dryden) | 4 |
| Numbers of the Paradise Lost | 8 |
| Application of the discovery to treatment if impediments-Harmony of utterance and composition-Oratorical utterance-Health, etc. | 9 |
| Case of three brothers in Brecknock, with enunicative impediments | 11 |
| Treatment and Cure | 13 |
| Causes of delay in more extensive application of the principle | 14 |
| First idea of a scientific course of lectures on elocution | 15 |
| Difficulties and obstructions | 16 |
| Lectures and experiments in Sheffield, Leeds, York, and Hull | 18 |
| Confirmation of my theory from musical science-elocution of Greece-Steele’s Prosdia Rationalis | 20 |
| Unreasonable neglect of English elocution by English scholars | 26 |
| Consequent inanity and degradation of English oratory | 27 |
| Application of my principle to the speechless and the stammerer | 28 |
| Process of cultivation and development-obligations to professional and scientific characters | 29 |
| Complication of tones in the modulation of the human voice | 31 |
| Communication from Mr. John Gough, on the sonorous vibrations of the chest | 35 |
| Accuracy and practical consequences of Mr. Gough’s theory | 40 |
| Experiments in confirmation of the theory | 43 |
| Resumption of the progress of diffusion and development of the science | 44 |
| Case of a young gentleman at Birmingham with defect of palate and uvula | 46 |
| Artificial palate-advantages and inconveniences | 48 |
| Elocutionary treatment and remedy | 49 |
| Case of a gentlemen with complicated impediment, recommended by the former, ibid. Operations on the fraenum-Opinion of Dr. Denman, etc | 50 |
| Cases of four young gentlemen in Doncaster with original constriction of fraena | 51 |
| Whether stammering, stuttering, etc. ever immediately ascribable to organic defect or malconformation | 53 |
| How far such defects may be remote or incidental causes of such calamity | 54 |
| Brutality of schoolmasters, etc. Operation of terror | 55 |
| Nervous and hereditary impediments | 56 & 59 |
| Complication of moral and intellectual causes in certain species of impediment, and exclusive operation in others | 57 |
| What descriptions of impediment may and what may not be referred to simple organic causes | 61 |
| Contrast between the phaenomena of these and of such as are ascribable to mental embarrassment and habitual misaction | 62 |
| Case of a young lady in Edinburgh-treatment and cure | 63 |
| Influence of mental causes-management of the passions, temper etc. Action and reaction of physical and mental causes | 65 |
| Parallel and connection between certain cases of impediment, and certain approximations towards idiocy and degrees or tendencies to mental derangement | 67 |
| Parallel between certain opposite phaenomena of impediment and certain constitutional diseases of excessive and of defective irritability | 69 |
| Impotency of mere medical treatment of impediments | 70 |
| Application of the general principle to other cases of defective development and partial derangements of the faculties; power of educational treatment to avert or remedy such calamities | 71 |
| Recurrence to the subject of organic impediments-operations for the hare-lip, simple and complicated | 72 |
| Artificial palates-Mr. Flood (the Irish Orator)-hints to dentists | 73 |
| Elocutionary treatment requisite after the operation | 76 |
| Development of the powers of existing organs, and substitution of the actions of one for another | 77 |
| Resumption of more extensive view of the subject-development of the organic powers and faculties in general | 78 |
| Indolent despair, criminal negligence and inconsistency | 79 |
| Anecdote | 81 |
| Cases of mere speechlessness, contradistinguished from those of the deaf-born dumb-tribute to a noble institution | 84 |
| Case of a young female at Maidstone | 85 |
| Case of a child bline from the operation of the inoculated small-pox and supposed to have been rendered speechless by the same cause | 86 |
| Case of a poor man, speechless from epilepsy and organic imbecility | 99 |
| Contradistinguishing phenomena-Inquiry how far the faculty of speech the cause or consequence of intellectual superiority | 101 |
| Design of a systematic treatise on the distinction of physical and moral idiocy | 102 |
| Obstructions in the way of such designs-the trade of literature-prejudices, etc. | 103 |
| Further communications from Mr. Gough-case of a child rendered speechless by seclusion and indulgence, and afterwards attaining the use of speech, by being placed under new circumstances | 106 |
| Curious instance of moral idiocy from white’s Natural History of Selbourne | 110 |
| Further facts-illustrations from Ancient History,–Savage of Aveyron-Conjecture relative to the Son of Croesus | 115 |
| Case of moral idiocy, etc. | 116 |
| Inadequacy of the mere propensity of imitation for development of human faculties | 123 |
| Application to parental infatuation | 124 |
| Original differences of facility and aptitude require different modes of stimulus and management-occult causes-anatomical indications | 125 |
| Case of two children rendered speechless to a very protracted age by habit and imitation | 127 |
| Case of permanent speechlessness from temporary deafness | 128 |
| Dr. James of Carlisle-case of privation of speech from epilepsy | 133 |
| Case of general disorganization of the senses-from the influence of the same disease | 138 |
| Case of speechlessness in the neighbourhood of Rochester, from complication of physical causes, Etc | 142 |
| Case of impediment from amentia | 143 |
| Proposal for treatment of such cases | 144 |
| Conclusion-motives for the present address | 148 |
| P.S. opinion on a case of defective utterance from partial deafness and supposed deficiency of general faculty | 151 |
