The Dumbstruck Archive

A Collection of Texts and Images Relating to the History of Ventriloquism
A continuing, online supplement to Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
By Steven Connor

Scientists and Physicians on Ventriloquism

Conrad Amman, Dissertatio de loquela (1700)
B.A. Richerand, Elements of Physiology (1803)
John Good, The Study of Medicine (1822)
J.G. Millingen, Curiosities of Medical Experience (1839)
John Gough, 'Of the Position of Sonorous Bodies' (1802)
The Edinburgh Review on John Gough (1802)