i86 SYSTEMS OF TREATING STAMMERING
M. Malebouche, of Paris. Later, through the interven-
tion of Mr, Cox-Barnet, American consul at Paris,
M. Malebouche purchased his release from his pledge
of secrecy. He thereupon communicated the method
j ;if ; to the Academic des Sciences (1827), and had the sys-
j Jjj tern described by M. Magendie in the latter's article
t 'Ji ' "B6gaiement/J in the Dictionnaire de d de
Chirurgie* Later Malebouche himself published an
article on the subject in the Dktwnnaire d€ In Con-
versation et de la Lecture , and finally wrote his ** Pr£cxs
sur. les Causes du B6gaiemcnt et sur Ics Moyen de le
All of this may seem irrelevant, but we are dealing
again with a method that has numerous modern
inventors, and that threatens (in America, at least)
to come once more into prominence,
Concerning the Leigh theory t Maleboucht* : *
"The observations giving rise to the method were &s fol-
lows : Persons that speak fluently have the tongue conauuitiy
applied to the palatine arch; stammerers, on the contrary,
have the tongue continually in the lower part of the mouth,
The stammerer must therefore execute two movement* in order
to articulate — one to raise the tongue and the outlet for
the elementary sound, and the other to modify this *oun<i*
Herein the stammerer resembles a lutist that to place
his fingers on the stops while playing his instrument "•* thft modi-
fying movements do not correspond to those far
the production of the elementary sounds, These have
1 "Pr$d» sur les causes du Mgaiemeat/1 pp. 10 1
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