Stammering, stuttering, and other speech affections : their causes and cure / by W. Abbotts.

  • Abbotts, William.
Date:
1898
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Stammering, stuttering, and other speech affections : their causes and cure / by W. Abbotts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    7/68
    PREFACE. t The following observations upon an interesting, and too I often imperfectly understood, class of affections, viz., Stam- i mering. Stuttering, and other Defects of Speech, were j originally written for publication in one of the medical j journals, but, owing to the length which they gradually i assumed as I proceeded with my subject, they became too f much extended for the columns of a periodical, and it has i therefore been thought desirable to publish them in their i present form, in the hope that they may be found of some i service in the treatment of disorders hitherto looked upon t as almost incurable. My principal aim has been rather to direct attention to i a rational plan of treatment than to produce an elaborate i essay upon the subject. A great book,” to use the words i of the old Greek writer, is often “ a great evil.” i i I Forty years’ study of Affections of Speech, and practical « experience gained from the observation of thousands of \ cases, have fully confirmed me in the opinion which I for I merly expressed concerning the advantage of treating each i