arrangements were easily made to remove him from class and place
him for treatment. Notwithstanding the fact that his trouble was
unusually severe for a boy of that age, seven weeks at the Institute
saw him made into a new boy, his confidence regained, his speech under
perfect control and his physical condition greatly improved. He
returned to school, where his unusual proficiency enlisted the aid and
co-operation of his teachers to such an extent that he was able to
finish the semester with his class.

Case No. 7.232--This was another boy of early school age, whose case is
described here because of the contrast of the one just mentioned. The
present case was that of a boy soon to be 10 years old. He had
stammered, not since his first word, but only since he had been allowed
to play with two children, twins, who lived in the neighborhood, and
both of whom had stuttered since their first attempts to speak. While I
never examined the twins, it seems from what I learned of them, that
the predisposition to stammer was an inherited one, both the father and
grandfather having been inveterate stammerers. Be that as it may, their
defective enunciation, practiced in the presence of the boy whose case
I am describing, caused the boy himself to acquire a habit of imperfect
enunciation which took the form of simple stuttering and which all the
home efforts of his mother and father had failed to eradicate. At the
time he was brought to me, I gave him the usual examination, traced his
trouble back to its original cause--Unconscious Imitation diagnosed his
case as one of Simple Stuttering and recommended the procedure to be
followed. This boy left my care after three weeks and experienced no
further difficulty to this day, although he is now 24 years old and
engaged in work that necessitates his making impromptu speeches almost
every day. Here was a case of Simple Stuttering, taken at the right
time, which yielded almost magically to the treatment, but had it been
allowed to run on, would have progressed into the Advanced Stage of
Stuttering and later, in all probability, into an extremely severe case
of Combined Stammering and Stuttering.

Case No. 986.523--This was the case of a Polish boy who found it almost
impossible to begin a word or a sentence. In describing his case to me,
he finally managed to say, "Before I utter a word it takes me a long
time and after I utter the word, I become red in the face and so
excited that I don'