professionalism, that my case was a very peculiar one and that it
would require ten more treatments. But I could not figure out how,
if ten treatments had done me no good, ten more would do any
better. So I declined to try his methods any further. Once again I
said to myself, "Well, this has failed, too--I wonder what next?"

The next happened to be electrical treatments. When I visited the
electrical treatment specialist, he explained to me in a very
effective manner just how (according to his views) stammering was
caused by certain contractions of the muscles of the vocal organs,
etc., and told me that his treatment surely was the thing to
eliminate this contraction and leave my speech entirely free from
stammering. I knew something about my stammering then, but not a
great deal--consequently his explanation sounded plausible to me
and appealed to me as being very sensible and so I decided to give
it a trial. I was glad after it was over that I had received no
bad effects--that was ALL the cause I had to be glad, for he had
not changed my stammering one iota, nor had he changed my speech
in any way to make it easier for me to talk. Thus, had I found
another one of the things that will not work and chalked up
another failure against my attempts to be cured of stammering.

By this time, the reader may well wonder why I was not discouraged
in my efforts to be cured. Well, who will say that I was not? I
believe I was--as far as it was possible for me to be discouraged
at that time. But despite all my failures, I had made up my mind
never to give up until I was cured of stammering. I set myself
doggedly to the task of ridding myself of an impediment that I
knew would always hold me down and prevent any measure of success.
I stayed with this task. I never gave up. I kept this one thing