CURE FOR STUTTERING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 3

CURE FOR STUTTERING.

HOW A PROFESSOR OVERCAME

HIS DIFFICULTIES

Professor Renon, a distinguished of the Paris Medical Faculty, has made an interesting confession relating how he was cured of stuttering, says a Paris paper. He was such an inveterate stammerer that one day at the Gary du Nord, after keeping an impatient crowd waiting at the booking-jflice while he vainly tried to pronounce the name of the station Babeuf, he was" finally obliged to write his destination on a piece of paper and hand it to the booking-clerk. While on duty in the Paris hospitals he was occasionally obliged to order the use of phenacetin, but he could never ; pronounce that word, so solved the difficulty by prescribing another medicine with a name easier ti pronounce. After he had been appointed professor he was obliged to assist at the examinations of medical students, and, afraid of stuttering while interrogating the candidates, he determined to get rid of his infirmity. He put himself in the hands of a specialist who made him promise not to utter a singe word for a week. For eight days he wrote down everything he wanted, and when he met friends in the street who wished to speak with him he showed them a card on which was written, "I am following treatment for stuttering, and am obliged to remain dumb for eight days." After a week's breathing lessions, voice exercises, and gymnastics of the lips, he was allowed to speak very slowlv, pronouncing each syllable separately. The treatment ilasted over a year, but the professor .has seldom had any difficulty since, and is now in much request as a popular lecturer all over France.