Memoir on the radical cure of stuttering, by a surgical operation / by J.F. Dieffenbach ; translated from the German by Joseph Travers.

Date:
1841
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Credit: Memoir on the radical cure of stuttering, by a surgical operation / by J.F. Dieffenbach ; translated from the German by Joseph Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. In the following Memoir M. Dieffeiibach has laid before the world another proof of his genius as an operative Surgeon. Time alone can show how far this operation may be generally applicable ; but the success of the first sixteen cases, and the very small proportion of untoward circumstances attend- ing them, hold out the fairest prospect of its coming speedily into general use. A daily attendance on M. Dieffenbach's lectures and practice has given me the opportunity of hearing his remarks on each case during its progress and treatment, and it has been my aim therefore to trans- late ideas rather than words: a mode approved by M. Dieffenbach himself, to whom the revision of this Translation has been submitted.