SETTING THE TONGUE FREE : CHAPTER II
HOW TO DETERMINE WHETHER YOU CAN BE CURED
You can either be cured of your trouble or
you cannot. If you can, why should you go about
hesitating, stumbling, sticking, stammering and stuttering?
Why should you deny yourself the privileges
of society, the advantages of opportunity, the fruits
of success if you can be completely and
permanently cured of the trouble which handicaps you
and holds you back?
Why should you live a half life
as a stammerer, if you can be cured and live the complete,
joyous, happy, overflowing life?
Why should you be content with failure
or half-success if the triumphant power to accomplish,
the masterful will to succeed is right within your
grasp?
Why should you continue to stammer if you can be cured?
The answer is, you should not.
The first step, therefore, is to determine
definitely and accurately whether you are in a curable
stage of your trouble and whether you can be completely
and permanently cured.
These things you cannot determine
for yourself. You have no facilities for determining
the facts. You lack the scientific knowledge upon
which such conclusions must be based. You cannot
diagnose your case of stammering any more than you
could accurately diagnose a highly complex nervous
disease. In order, therefore, that the most important
of all questions, viz.: “Can I be
Cured?” may be correctly and authoritatively
answered, I am willing to diagnose your case and give
you a typewritten report of your condition, telling
you whether or not you are still in a curable stage.
It goes without saying that this diagnosis
must be based upon a description of the case in question.
This description must be accurate and reliable as
well as thorough. In order to insure this, I furnish
with each book a Diagnosis Blank, which when properly
filled out, gives me the information necessary to
determine the durability of the case, as well as to
furnish much other valuable information about the
individual’s condition.
In no case, will I undertake to pass
on the curability of the stammerer without a diagnosis
first being made. You want the opinion which I
give you to be authoritative and dependable a
report in which you can place your entire confidence.
I cannot give such a report by merely hazarding a
guess as to your condition. I must base my report
on the actual facts as they exist. I must make
a careful study of your symptoms, determine what your
peculiar combination of symptoms indicates, find out
the nature of your trouble, determine its severity.
When you have returned the blank and
when I have furnished you with the diagnosis of your
case, you can depend upon it to be accurate, authoritative,
definite and positive. It will give you the plain
facts about your trouble be those facts
good or bad.