unded with a great deal of mystery in the
years gone by. The idea has been widely prevalent that the affliction
was one sent by Providence as a punishment for some act committed by
the sufferer or his forbears. This and many other ideas bordering upon
superstition, are responsible, too, to a great degree for the belief
that stammering is incurable.

3rd--Even if an attempt to cure stammering was made, this attempt was
based upon the "supposition" that stammering was a physical trouble,
due to some defect in the organs of speech. It followed that since no
one was ever able to discover any physical defect, no one knew the true
cause of the disorder, nor how to treat it successfully.

4th--Unfortunately there have been in the field a number of
irresponsible charlatans, preying upon the stammerer with claims to
cure, while in fact they knew little or nothing of the disorder, had
never stammered themselves, nor had the slightest knowledge of the
correct methods of procedure in the core of stammering. The failure of
such as these to do any good led to a widespread belief that there was
no successful method for the eradication of speech disorders.

From an experience covering more than twenty-eight years, during which
time the author has corresponded with 210,000 persons who stammer and
has personally met and diagnosed about 22,000 cases, it has been proved
that all of these beliefs are fallacies of the worst character. Given
any person who stutters or stammers and who has no organic defect and
is as intelligent as the average child of eight years, it has been
found that the Unit Method of Restoring Speech will eradicate the
trouble at its source and by removing the cause, entirely remove the
defective utterance.

THE STAMMERER'S CASE NOT HOPELESS: Stammerers should fix this fact
firmly in mind: Stammering can be cured! There is hope, positive,
definite hope for every case--this fact is based on every imaginable
form of stuttering or stammering. It is not, in other words, a mere
idle statement based on theory or guess-work, but a mathematical truth,
taken from experience.

I recall very well the case of a man of 32 who came to me for help
after five of the so-called schools for stammerers had failed to afford
him any relief. Quite naturally this man was a confirmed skeptic. He
did not believe that there was any cure for him. Anyone who had been
through the trials that he had experienced would have felt the same
way. But