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Show relieved a pressure at this spot in my spine which had caused a paralysis of the vocal organs. After two treatments treat-ments I was able to speak again, just as I am speaking now, and it has made me very happy indeed." During the past week since Mrs. Huddleston's speech has been restored she has been the center of a continuous continu-ous line of visitors and friends who have called to hear her speak, and to see for themselves "if it was so." Asked for a statement regarding this case, Dr. Bybee stated yesterday that there was nothing miraculous about it, it being simpiy the application appli-cation of commonsense principles of treatment as embodied in the chiropractic chiro-practic syetem of relieving spinal pressure. News Clipping. Simular results are being obtained right here through chiropractic methods. WOMAN MUTE THREE YEARS Has Power of Speech Suddenly Restored What would you do if after being unable to talk for more than three years your power of speech was suddently and unexpectedly restored to you? This is not exactly the age of miracles, and yet this very thing has happened within the past week to a Portsmouth woman, Mrs. F. L. Hud-dleston, Hud-dleston, No. 1507 South Street, who is so elated over the event that she does not care a great deal by what source it occurred, but is perfectly willing to talk to anyone about it, and let them draw their own conclusions. LMrs. Huddleeton was injured in an automobile accident some five yeare ago, in the latter part of December, : 1923. It was thought at that time that she had suffered a fractured skull, but she apparently recovered and in the course of time was married. It was after being married for several months that she noticed that there was an impediment in her, speech, which kept getting worse until she became be-came absolutely speechless. This con-tltiion con-tltiion has continued for over the past three years. Treatments of all, sorts failed to restore her speech, and she had become resigned to the life of a mute. In the meantime she had given birth to a baby girl. The child, nearly near-ly three years old now had never heard its mother's voice until Tuesday Tues-day of last week, and this is how it all happened. The mother and the husband of Mrs. Huddleston, groping about for some means of restoring her lost powers of speech, had suggested that, as a last resort, she try chiropractic treatment. She demurred at first, feeling that it would be useless, inasmuch inas-much as other treatments had failed, but finally last Monday she presented herself to a chiropractor, with a note stating what her trouble was and saying say-ing that, she had consented to treatment treat-ment because of the wishes of her husband and mother. Now let her tell her own story, which she related to a reporter of The Portsmouth Star in the office of the Portsmouth Star yes-; yes-; terday : I "I had n hope of being benefited by Chiropractic treatments, but was I willing to give it a trial. Tlhe doctor I had X-Ray photographs made last Monday, and on Tuesday when I went I back to him he gave me chiropractic adjustments to relieve what he said was' a subluxation of the second spinal vertebra or in other words he l |