this boy’s case was due to the fact that he had stuttered almost since his first word and had rarely spoken words correctly.  As has been previously explained, every child learns to speak by imitation and his confidence in his speaking-ability must be gained by constant reassurance from some source that he is speaking correctly.  Early in life this boy had found that he was not speaking correctly and at that moment began to feel the lack of confidence which had been growing upon him daily.  Although in the midst of his school work, 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.