The Real cause of stammering and its permanent cure : a treatise on psycho-analytical lines / by Alfred Appelt.

  • Appelt, Alfred.
Date:
1911
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    Lae REAL CAUSE OF STAMMERING AND ITS. PERMANENT CURE CHAPTER I RETROSPECTIVE ISTORICAL references to the existence in past ages of impediments of speech are both frag- mentary and unreliable, owing to the incom- plete observations of those times and the inability of such observers, as there were, to discriminate between the varied vocal defects that came under their notice. One of the most notable and interesting of such references is the excuse which the great Lawgiver, Moses, tendered to God in his desire to escape from the mission for which he had been chosen: “I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue,” he said (Exod. iv.10). In God’s reply, as Moses records it, we see that defects of speech were regarded by the Jews as afflic- tions equal to deafness and blindness: ‘“ Who hath made man’s mouth ? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?” (Exod. iv. 11). This is instanced again in the prophecies of Isaiah, where, in enumerating the blessings of Christ’s Kingdom (Isa. xxxii. 3, 4), he says: “And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the