Stammering, considered with reference to its cure by the application of those laws which regulate utterance : in a letter addressed to George Birkbeck, M.D. F.G.S., President of the London Mechanics' Institution, etc. etc. etc. / by Richard Cull.

  • Cull, Richard
Date:
1835
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Credit: Stammering, considered with reference to its cure by the application of those laws which regulate utterance : in a letter addressed to George Birkbeck, M.D. F.G.S., President of the London Mechanics' Institution, etc. etc. etc. / by Richard Cull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This instrument directed the tongue's tip to the upper teeth, and kept it in that position. The Doctor says that, with gargles in addition, he cured two cases; but he does not state whether he at- tempted more or not. From the ill success, it de- servedly fell into disuse. But the tongue is not the only enunciative organ which is uncontrollable. There is a want of control in other organs whose collocations produce the necessary mechanisms for elements, with which the tongue is required to be inactive, remaining quiescently imbedded in its cavity: in place of being an active, it is a passive organ, B, D, G, as heard in boy, cloy, gay, and their correlative mute stops, P, T, K, are elements which especially are difficult for stammerers to utter. Some can produce them when terminatives, as in the words ab, ad, ag, up, at, ok, their mechanism then being by appulsion; but when initials, as in the words boy, dog, gay, poor, to, kind, their me- chanism then being by divulsion, the organs refuse to separate, and the speech is consequently impeded. Dr. Arnott’s drone sound will enable a person to convert the initial consonants into terminatives, thus changing them into appulsive elements, which are utterable by most stammerers. In this way the whole syllabication will be altered : thus the words abbot will be changed from ab-bot to abb-ot; adder ; ad-der — add-er ; aggress ag-gress — aggr-ess.
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