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Ferrein's treatise may be said to mark the beginning of a transition period during which empirical instruction was gradually displaced by so-called scientific methods. This transition period lasted, roughly speaking, till the invention of the laryngoscope in 1855. Since that time vocal instruction has been carried on almost exclusively along mechanical lines.
The study of the larynx was made possible by the invention of the laryngoscope in 1855 by Manuel Garcia, a celebrated singing-master. It is a simple apparatus which, however, does not detract from but rather adds to its value as an invention and has been a boon to the physician in locating and curing affections of the throat.
THE GLOTTIS AND VOCAL CORDS VIEWED FROM ABOVE 1, Glottis. 2, True Cords. 3, False Cords. 4, Epiglottis. 5, Base of Tongue. V, Ventricles. T, Thyroid Cartilage. C, Cricoid Cartilage. W, Windpipe or Trachea. The laryngoscope should not, in fact, leave the hands of the physician.
But the extending of the scope of inquiry concerning the registers did not result in any unanimity of opinion on the part of the vocal investigators of that time. For a few years following the invention of the laryngoscope , vocal theorists ceased their disputes about the registers, and awaited the definite results of this new mode of observation.
"The chances against anything lady-like on Wenus," he said, "are a million to one." Even Pearson's Weekly woke up to the disturbance at last, and Mrs. Lynn Linton contributed an article entitled "What Women Might Do" to the Queen. A paper called Punch, if I remember the name aright, made a pun on the subject, which was partially intelligible with the aid of italics and the laryngoscope.
At the present time the physicians would use the laryngoscope and look and see what the trouble was. The one thing which saves a patient in this disease is a timely tracheotomy. No one would think of antimony, calomel, or bleeding now. The point is to let in the air, and not to let out the blood.
His first idea, announced in the preface to the first edition of his École de Garcia, was to "reproduce my father's method, attempting only to give it a more theoretical form, and to connect results with causes." Interest in the mechanics of the voice continued to be almost entirely academic until the invention of the laryngoscope in 1855. Then the popular note was struck.
I attached the mirror of a laryngoscope to my forehead in such a manner as to enable it to throw a strong reflection into one of my eyes. In the centre of the bright side of the laryngoscope a small electric lamp was fitted. This was connected with a battery which I carried in my hand.
Represents what the author has frequently seen, by the use of the laryngoscope, when a soprano is producing a very high head-tone, say C, D, or E in alt. In a singer highly endowed by nature and perfected by long training based on the soundest principles, the action of the muscles of the larynx may reach a degree of perfection only to be compared with that of the eye and ear.
The purport of it, I believe, was to ridicule doctors generally; for Artemus was bitterly sarcastic on his medical attendants, and he had some good reasons for being so. A few weeks before he died, a German physician examined his throat with a laryngoscope, and told him that nothing was the matter with him except a slight inflammation of the larynx.
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