Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 46 CHAPTER in. HISTORICAL EEVIEW OF THE CHIEF THEORIES AND MODES OF TREATMENT FOR IMPEDIMENTS IN SPEECH, ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. The earliest mention of defective utterance we find in the Scriptures. " I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue." " And the tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain."f " And the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain."f The information we derive from the writings of the Greeks and Romans in relation to the physiology and pathology of dyslalia is very scanty, which is themore remarkable, as oratory then paved the way to the highest offices of the state. Hebrew.—Kebad peh kebad loshun anochi. Greek Sept. —Ischnophonos kai bradyglossos ego eimi. Latin VutG.—Im- peditioris et tardioris linguse sum. Exod., chap, iv, 10. t Hebrew.—Loshun elgim. Greek Sept.—Kai ai glossai ai paellizousai. Latin Vulo.—Et lingua balborum Isaiah, chap, i, 4. Si. Mark, chap, vii, 35. The following extracts from the works of the ancients, contain some of the principal passages referring to the subject of disorders of the voice and speech. I have considered it advisable to give the Greek and Latin terms in notes, in order to exhibit the meaning which the respective authors and translators, apparently, attached to the expressions used. I may also here observe that in presenting a panoramic view of the principal theories and remedies proposed, the reader will not fail to gain a pretty correct idea of the gradual advance which has been made in the treatment of stammering from the earliest time up to the present day. Hebodotus (484 B.c.) says that the Therean Bat- tos, who had been a stutterer and a stammererf from his youth, consulted the oracle at Delphi. The oracle said : " Battos, thou comest on account of thy ...