BEASLEY, B.
Stammering: Its Treatment.
Birmingham: Hudson and Son, 1897. 17th edition. The author cured himself after suffering for more than thirty years. Pp.62, occasional spotting throughout, advertisement for the author's establishment for the cure of stammering or stuttering at Brampton Park near Huntington to front endpapers, ownership notation to inside rear board. Origninal red cloth has spotted discolouration. Scarce early edition. Good.** "Benjamin Beasly was one voice among a new generation of experts who explicitly combined the results of scientific medical research and educational practice in their work. Considering the stammerer neither as a patient to be observed and cured, nor as a nervous weakling unable to control his tongue, Beasley proposed a series of exercises that explicitly mobilized the self-discipline he expected his ‘pupils’ to have. His main claim to expertise on the subject was his own experience of stammering. According to his Reminiscences, Beasley had been an inveterate stammerer who had fruitlessly tried out all cures until he finally devised his own method to obtain fluent speech.(Diseases of Modern Life: Oxford Univ. Victims of Civilization.Dr.J.Hoegarts).

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