Lip chorea and paresis of the external pterygoid muscles : commonly called 'stammering' / by Edward Blake.

  • Blake, Edward.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Lip chorea and paresis of the external pterygoid muscles : commonly called 'stammering' / by Edward Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Paralysis of the External Pterygoid Muscles and Lip Chorea, commonly called “ Stammering By Edwakd Blake, M.D. The object of this essay is to induce medical men to treat the cases of stammering which they encounter in practice, on definite scientific principles. It is open to the gravest question if we ought to sanction the promiscuous herding together of stammerers in establishments devoted to their treatment. We know how highly contagious many of the demonstrative neuroses are; how mimetic the neurotic nature is apt to be. The mild cases are prone to imitate the severe and more pronounced forms. Of course it is, to a very large extent, our own fault that the public have lent an ear to the claims of pretended specialists who are ready, for obvious reasons, to prove that stammering is not a disease but “ a mere gait.” a 2