Identifier: garciacentenaria00mack (find matches)
Title: Garcia the centenarian and his times; being a memoir of Manuel Garcia's life and labours for the advancement of music and science
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Mackinlay, Malcolm Sterling, b. 1876
Subjects: Garcia, Manuel, 1805-1906
Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ashis pupil I could not return to the Academy. Ofcourse I wrote at once and said I would not rejoinCrivellis class, and certainly would not return at all. On leaving the Academy I went to Garciashouse and explained to him how my voice had beenchanged. He made me sing a few bars, and thentold me I must rest entirely for some consider-able time, not singing at all, and not talking toomuch, so as to give the throat, which was out oforder, complete rest. After six months of quiet Iwent again to him, when he tried my voice and saidI could now begin to practise. I therefore com- 200 THIRD PERIOD—LONDON. menced lessons at once, and soon found it improv-ing, thanks to the careful way in which he mademe practise, bringing the voice back to its properregister, and giving me Italian contralto songsafter many lessons. With this episode we are brought to the yearwhich medical men will consider the most im-portant one in Manuel Garcias life, as it was in1854 that he perfected his great discovery.
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MANUEL GARCIA. (Reproduced from an Original Sketch by Pauline Viardot soon after the Invention of the Laryngoscope.) 201 CHAPTER XIV. THE LARYNGOSCOPE. (1854-1857.) It was in 1854 (the year which saw the ultimatumof England and France presented to St Petersburg,the prelude to the Crimean War) that the im-portant invention was made—or, as the maestrowith characteristic modesty described it, the ideadawned on him —of the laryngoscope. As to its lasting value to the world at large,it will be sufficient to point out that since thatyear, according to reliable estimates, 3 per cent ofthe entire human race have been benefited by theinvention. With regard to the history of the discovery, anaccount of the earlier attempts which had beenmade has been set down in the number of the British Medical Journal published at the time ofthe Garcia Centenary. Before proceeding further, it may be well to warnthe reader that the next few pages are bound todeal with a certain amount of technical detail wh

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