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STUTTERING,

THEIR

NATURE AND TREATMENT,

BY

JAMES HUNT, PH.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.L. F.E.S.,

(Honorary Secretary of the Ethnological Society of London.)

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PARIS,
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE UPPER HESSE SOCIETY

FOR NATURAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE, AUTHOR OF

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LANGUAGE IS TO THE MIND WHAT BEAUTY IS TO THE

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TO MY PUPILS.

To you, my dear pupils, who have felt the physical and mental pangs attending impeded utterance, and the feeling of relief when the thoughts that breathe' readily find vent' in words that burn,' I dedicate this volume.

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I cheerfully acknowledge the many tokens of gratitude I have received from you, and I am equally thankful that it has been my privilege to remove or alleviate your infirmity, so that you are now enabled to do the work assigned to you in this world.

That you may succeed and prosper in the respective paths you have chosen, will always remain the sincere wish of

Ore House, near Hastings:

December, 1860:

Your faithful Friend,

JAMES HUNT.

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PREFACE.

THE third edition of my "Treatise on the Cure of Stammering" being out of print, I have embraced this opportunity of issuing the present work in lieu of another edition of the Treatise. Though a portion of the latter is necessarily embodied in this volume, yet the whole has been so altered and so many additions and, I trust, improvements made, that it may be considered as essentially a new book. The reader may now search without disappointment for every phase of defective utterance, as the present volume contains, in a condensed form, a comprehensive survey of nearly all theories and remedies proposed in relation to impediments of speech, from the earliest period to the present time.

For reasons stated in the text, it is not pretended that a mere perusal of these pages will enable afflicted persons to cure themselves; but they certainly will derive from it every information as to the nature of

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