The origin and treatment of stammering / by Geo. Andrew Lewis.

  • Lewis, George Andrew, 1870-1915.
Date:
1903
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Credit: The origin and treatment of stammering / by Geo. Andrew Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    There is no doubt that stammering Is a more seri- ous trouble than is generally believed, and although the stammerer in the past has to a large extent been obliged to bear with humiliation the brunt of his afflic- tion, public sympathy is rapidly assuming the place of public ridicule, and the time is not far distant when the cause of the stammerer will appeal to the masses in the same sense as the cause of other human infirmities and demand the recognition it deserves. The blighted lives, the crushed ambitions, the wail of parents in behalf of their children, the tears, the letters of despond- ency, supplications for help from every quarter of the civilized globe, together with the nervous and physical wrecks that stammering has left in its wake, combine to prove the extent of the stammerer's helpless condition. I know of no other work in which I could engage to better prove my usefulness to mankind than that of treating the stammerer. Having myself for more than twenty years been obliged to bear the yoke, I can bet- ter appreciate the suffering and sorrow of others thus unfortunately afflicted. With the aim of devoting my entire future life for the benefit of others I have founded my Institution on a basis of Home and School Combined hitherto unapproached, and hope by the continued encourage- ment of success to extend to hundreds of suffering and disheartened stammerers a new life, crowned with new ambitions. One of God's greatest and most noble blessings is the privilege and enjoyment of perfect and unfettered speech. Very sincerely, Geo. Andrew Lev^is.