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Show PUT HYPNOTISM TO GOOD USE Australian Physician Announces That He Hat Cured War Stammering by Its Employment. Writing in the Medical Journal of Australia, Dr. Clarence 0. (iodfrey states that during the past two years a number of cases have been referred to him for treatment by hypnotic suggestion. sug-gestion. In which stammering or stuttering stut-tering had developed, or had been revived, after years of disappearance. ns the result of shell shock or of VOflOttS war stresses. Sometimes a bpyaottted patient has been told to keep on repeating some well-known nursery rhyme and not to cease at the signal to awake, although In the middle mid-dle of the rhyme, but lo keep on talk lug. Me will usually manifest his astonishment at finding himself talking talk-ing without difficulty. Sometimes a patient will converse on waking without with-out realising that his stammering has disappeared until his attention Is drown to 1t with amusing effect I" one case the patient sfioke perfectly In Bleep nt the first attempt to hypnotize hyp-notize him, although he had had n very bad stutter for eight months past, being iiIiiiom (fiarf iciilwre. He wok lu a few minutes apparently cured and has been free from stutter ever S'P.ec. It has been noticed that eery case treated, even the worst, hs been stile to speak far better In the hypnotic state than out of it. |