Emery County Progress | 1904-12-10 | Page 3 | Compel Use of Voice

c COMPEL UC USE IE OF VOICE I 1 electric shock the means of compel ling articulation A young woman of leeds who had not been able to speak jor for five year years has recovered her voice through electricity one of the hospital surgeons who operated said we occasionally get patients nho mho are unable to peek speak not through any tiny organic ailment aliment but simply because they are in a hysterical condition and we often cure them by a strong electric shock As a rule they bell ell out and then they have no excuse for not being able to we VV do not suggest that such patient patients have hav been shamming they actually cannot speak although there la is nothing 1 wrong ith till their voice they are the kind of patients who sometime sometimes go under quack treatment and make remarkable cures there Is a good deal desi of faith healing in the matter