Stammering and stuttering : their nature and treatment / by James Hunt.

  • James Hunt
Date:
1865
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Credit: Stammering and stuttering : their nature and treatment / by James Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A popular author has well depicted this distressing affliction in the following verses entitled The Stam- merer's Complaint* “ Hast ever seen an eagle chained to the earth ? A restless panther to his cage immured ? A swift trout by the wily fisher checked ? A wild bird hopeless strain its broken wings ? “ Or ever felt, at the dark dead of night, Some undefined and horrid incubus, Press down the very soul, and paralyse The limbs in their imaginary flight From shadowy terrors in unhallowed sleep ? # # # # * “ Then thou canst picture—ay, in sober truth— In real, unexaggerated truth— The constant galling, festering chain that binds Captive my mute interpreter of thought; The seal of lead enstamped upon my lips. The load of iron on my labouring chest, The mocking demon, that at every step, Haunts me, and spurs me on—to burst in silence. “ I scarce would wonder if a godless man (I name not him whose hope is heavenward), A man whom lying vanities hath scath’d And harden’d from all fear—if such an one, By this tyrannical Argus goaded on, Were to be wearied of his very life, And daily, hourly foiled in social converse, By the slow simmering of disappointment, Become a sour’d and apathetic being, Were to feel rapture at the approach of Death, And long for his dark hope—annihilation.” * Ballads for the Times. By Martin F. Tupper.
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