BOYS WHO STAMMER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 17 September 1929, Page 12

BOYS WHO STAMMER.

DOCTOR'S "DEMONSTRATION"

LADS REFUSE TO STUTTER.

Stammering schoolboys would have little to do with doctors at the Medical Congress in Sydney the other day; A number of boys so afflicted wore induced to attend tho congress, where Dr. T. Garnet Leary was to demonstrate motho'ds of curing stammering and stuttering.

When the first batch of lads arrived at tho doors of tho medical school they took ono glance at tho hundreds of doctors and fled and rofused to return.

Two lads turned up later, and Dr. Lbary quiotoned their fears so well that when ho attempted to demonstrate his methods they refused to stutter. • "How old are you ?" Dr. Leftry askod one lad. "Twelve, sir," ' replied tho youngster without tho trace oi a stutter. The doctor was nonplussed, <but ho tried again; "How many brothers and sisters havo you?" ho askod. "No sisters and throe brothers,", answered tho lad, and still there was no sign of stammering. Tho other doctors sympathised with Dr. Leary and he tried the other lad. "When do you stammer most?" he asked. "When I'm excited, sir," replied the boy with a slight trace of the affliction. "How did. you develop a stutter?" tho doctor asked. v 4 , "Well, 'sir, when I was a - little chap I had a cobber that stuttered badly and I caught it ffom him," replied- thcr little follow- seriously. Dr. Leary; gave it np then.-