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Show COMPEL USE OF VOICE. Electric Shock the Means of Compelling Compel-ling Articulation. A young woman ot Leeds, who bsd not been able lo a-ienk for five years, has recovered her olre through elec trlclly. One of tbe liospltnl surgeons who operated said "We occasionally get patlssta who am iinablo to speak, not through any organic ailment, but simply because they are In n hysterical hysteri-cal condition, and we often cure them by a strong electric shock. As a ruto they yell nut, and then they have no excuse for not being able to speak We do not rugge-st that such pntlonts hate been shamming. They actually cannot can-not apeak, although there Is nothing wrong with their olc. They are the kind of patients who sometime go under quack treatment and make 'remarkable' 're-markable' cures There la a good deal ot faith healing In tbe matter." |