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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