A treatise on the cure of stammering with memoir of the late Thomas Hunt / by J. Hunt.

  • Hunt, James, 1833-1869.
Date:
1854
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Credit: A treatise on the cure of stammering with memoir of the late Thomas Hunt / by J. Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    and mental, and frequently ending in premature death. These are the effects of stammering; but therefore to call a misapplication of the tongue, the jaws, the throat, or the breath a disease, appears to me to be a ridiculous error; and with its dissipation all your inductions evaporate into thin air. u Having thus disposed of your first paragraph, T will say little of the verbal hair-splitting which commences the second. Curing or removing are terms perfectly accurate, where an evil has been cured or removed ; and whether used professionally or unprofessionallv, are clearly intelligible to the common sense of mankind ; conveying the same idea without possibility of mistake. And next comes your personal attack upon me—“the person improperly patron- ised by certain professional men—a Mr. Hunt—formerlv a Dorsetshire farmer, who now makes an irruption into London every season, coming in and going out with Grisi and Cerito —making a tolerably abundant harvest; for his practice is said to be flourishing, and his fees to be largo.’ These are heavy charges. The offence of being patronised by certain professional men must be confessed to be heinous in the eyes of rivalry and competition. You pick up two or three physicians to be made examples of for this dereliction. But you forget that in your own report of the Koval Medical and Chirurgical Society of the 10th of December, 1844, you afforded similar countenance to me by quoting the statement of so distinguished an individual as Professor Ferguson of King’s College; and in former numbers of the Lancet the inconsistency is still greater, for it not only inserted my letters against surgical operations, but approved of my system on account of its efficiency. To crown the contra- diction, 1 now copy an extract of a letter from the sub-editor ot the Lancet (who was himself acquainted with the principles I) 2