Henry Cline-Table of Contents (In Thelwall’s words)

Union of physiological and elocutionary science1
Temporary aberration from scientific pursuits2
Uses of retirement3
Discovery of the physical principle of rhythmus (Milton and Dryden)4
Numbers of the Paradise Lost8
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 impediments11
Treatment and Cure13
Causes of delay in more extensive application of the principle14
First idea of a scientific course of lectures on elocution15
Difficulties and obstructions16
Lectures and experiments in Sheffield, Leeds, York, and Hull18
Confirmation of my theory from musical science-elocution of Greece-Steele’s Prosdia Rationalis20
Unreasonable neglect of English elocution by English scholars26
Consequent inanity and degradation of English oratory27
Application of my principle to the speechless and the stammerer28
Process of cultivation and development-obligations to professional and scientific characters29
Complication of tones in the modulation of the human voice31
Communication from Mr. John Gough, on the sonorous vibrations of the chest35
Accuracy and practical consequences of Mr. Gough’s theory40
Experiments in confirmation of the theory43
Resumption of the progress of diffusion and development of the science44
Case of a young gentleman at Birmingham with defect of palate and uvula46
Artificial palate-advantages and inconveniences48
Elocutionary treatment and remedy49
Case of a gentlemen with complicated impediment, recommended by the former, ibid. Operations on the fraenum-Opinion of Dr. Denman, etc50
Cases of four young gentlemen in Doncaster with original constriction of fraena51
Whether stammering, stuttering, etc. ever immediately ascribable to organic defect or malconformation53
How far such defects may be remote or incidental causes of such calamity54
Brutality of schoolmasters, etc. Operation of terror55
Nervous and hereditary impediments56 & 59
Complication of moral and intellectual causes in certain species of impediment, and exclusive operation in others57
What descriptions of impediment may and what may not be referred to simple organic causes61
Contrast between the phaenomena of these and of such as are ascribable to mental embarrassment and habitual misaction62
Case of a young lady in Edinburgh-treatment and cure63
Influence of mental causes-management of the passions, temper etc. Action and reaction of physical and mental causes65
Parallel and connection between certain cases of impediment, and certain approximations towards idiocy and degrees or tendencies to mental derangement67
Parallel between certain opposite phaenomena of impediment and certain constitutional diseases of excessive and of defective irritability69
Impotency of mere medical treatment of impediments70
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 calamities71
Recurrence to the subject of organic impediments-operations for the hare-lip, simple and complicated72
Artificial palates-Mr. Flood (the Irish Orator)-hints to dentists73
Elocutionary treatment requisite after the operation76
Development of the powers of existing organs, and substitution of the actions of one for another77
Resumption of more extensive view of the subject-development of the organic powers and faculties in general78
Indolent despair, criminal negligence and inconsistency79
Anecdote81
Cases of mere speechlessness, contradistinguished from those of the deaf-born dumb-tribute to a noble institution84
Case of a young female at Maidstone85
Case of a child bline from the operation of the inoculated small-pox and supposed to have been rendered speechless by the same cause86
Case of a poor man, speechless from epilepsy and organic imbecility99
Contradistinguishing phenomena-Inquiry how far the faculty of speech the cause or consequence of intellectual superiority101
Design of a systematic treatise on the distinction of physical and moral idiocy102
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 circumstances106
Curious instance of moral idiocy from white’s Natural History of Selbourne110
Further facts-illustrations from Ancient History,–Savage of Aveyron-Conjecture relative to the Son of Croesus115
Case of moral idiocy, etc.116
Inadequacy of the mere propensity of imitation for development of human faculties123
Application to parental infatuation124
Original differences of facility and aptitude require different modes of stimulus and management-occult causes-anatomical indications125
Case of two children rendered speechless to a very protracted age by habit and imitation127
Case of permanent speechlessness from temporary deafness128
Dr. James of Carlisle-case of privation of speech from epilepsy133
Case of general disorganization of the senses-from the influence of the same disease138
Case of speechlessness in the neighbourhood of Rochester, from complication of physical causes, Etc142
Case of impediment from amentia143
Proposal for treatment of such cases144
Conclusion-motives for the present address148
P.S. opinion on a case of defective utterance from partial deafness and supposed deficiency of general faculty151

Appendices to A Letter to Henry Cline

Vindication and Illustration of the Rhythmus of Milton159
On the improper Elision of te Vowel in the customary modes of printing and reading English verse168
Further explanation of the physical principle of rhythmus-Examination of a passage in Steele’s Prosodia Rationalis, on the Cause of the delight received by the ear from such successive sounds exclusively as follow each other in definite musical proportions177
Brief Sketch of an entire course of Lectures on the Science and Practice of Elocution180
More particular Sketch of the Physiological portion of the Course183
On the Musical properties of English Syllables193
Poise or Thesis and Arsis194
Percussion195
Loudness and Softness196
Force197
Accents:–confused misapplication of the term by modern grammarians197
Ben Jonson’s accurate definition200
Varieties of English Accent201
Dr. Denman on the fatal consequences of cutting the bridle of the tongue205
An attempt to ascertain the circumstances under which that operation may be necessary or proper207
Correction of certain misstatements relative to the Abbe de l’Epee and his institution for the Deaf and Dumb214
On the impropriety of place the Deaf-born Dumb and persons who have Impediments of Speech in the same seminaries224
Sketches of the tone and tune of celebrated Actors227
Communication from Mr. Gough on the subject of Cretinage or Alpine Idiocy, etc.235
Some Account of the Institution in Bedford-Place, and the oratorical and Historical Society established in that Seminary241