This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...of those in the Formative or Speech-setting Periods would be of little value here because the growth of the individual has made the eradication of the trouble quite improbable without a complete re-education r along correct speech lines--best obtained from an institution devoting its efforts to that work. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...of those in the Formative or Speech-setting Periods would be of little value here because the growth of the individual has made the eradication of the trouble quite improbable without a complete re-education r along correct speech lines--best obtained from an institution devoting its efforts to that work. Whatever steps are taken, however, should be taken before the disorder has become rooted in the muscular and nervous system and before it has passed into the Chronic Stage. CHAPTER XIII WHERE DOES STAMMERING LEAD? IN answering the question: "Where Does Stammering Lead?" nothing truer can be found than the words of a man who has stammered himself: What pen can depict the woefulness, the intensified suffering of the inveterate stammerer, confirmed, stereotyped in a malady seemingly worse than death? Are the afflictions, mental and physical, of the pelted, browbeaten, down-trodden stutterer imaginary? Nonsense! There is not a word of truth in the idea. His sufferings all the time, day in and day out, at home and abroad, are real--intense--purgatorial. And none but those who have drunk the bitter cup to its dregs feel and know its death, death, double death! These afflicted ones die daily and the graves to them seem pleasant and delightful. The sufferings of the deaf and dumb are myths--but a drop in the ocean compared to what I endured! And who cared for me? Who? I was the laughing stock, a subject of scoffing and ridicule, often. I could fill an octavo with the miseries I endured from early childhood till the elapsement of forty summers." Thus does the Rev. David F. Newton, himself a stammerer for forty years, speak of stammering and stuttering and its effects. And Charles Kingsley, a noted English divine and author who stammered, paints the...
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