“At 14 I was a very bad stammerer.  I then attended the Bogue Institute, where I was completely cured in a few weeks.  I then secured a position as saleslady in one of our leading stores where I have been called upon to handle as many as one hundred sales in a single day.  I have never stammered once.  My cure has been absolutely perfect for the past ten years.  It was certainly a lucky day that I walked into Mr. Bogue’s office the first time.”

Another excellent proof of the permanency of the cure, is the subjection of the cured student to tremendous mental and nervous strain.  Many of our former students were in the Great War, numbers of them right up in the front line where the fighting was stiffest and where the nervous and mental strain was terrific.  Even under this test (which was enough to make a normal person become a stammerer—­and many of them did) the results of the Bogue Unit Method held them to normal speech.  One young man writes: 

“I completely regained my speech at the Bogue Institute in 1915.  I enlisted in the army and was sent overseas in the spring of ’18, and went through some of the hardest fighting the 42nd Division was in, that being the Division I was transferred to, and am happy to say the speech trouble has never come back on me.  I was wounded by a fragment of high explosive shell.  One hit me under the right arm, fracturing two ribs.  Another struck my shoulder and a piece ranged downward into my right lung, which now remains there.  I developed tuberculosis in November, in all probability from exposure as much as the wound.  I was evacuated to the U.S. early last winter and sent to this place, where I am rapidly regaining my health and expect to be discharged about September 1st.

“With all the hard experience I went through, stammering did not come back to me.  I have never regretted the time I spent with your Institute, and I have only the highest words of praise for the work being done in the Bogue Institute.”

Another severe test of a cure of stammering is an illness such as may have brought the trouble on in the first place.  If the stammerer, for instance, can undergo an attack of influenza or pneumonia and come out of it without difficulty, it proves beyond all question of a doubt that the cure is permanent.

For that reason, I wish to quote the letter of an Illinois boy who says: 

“I am getting along fine with my speech.  I am sure I will never stammer again.  I was sick the week after Christmas with pneumonia but it did not bother me a bit.”

Another young man says: 

“It is now nearly six months since I left the Institute and in that time I have not stammered a word.  What do you think about that?  It surely is fine.  But you know that.  I was in Chicago last week and visited friends and saw a doctor friend of mine who did not know that I had been away, so he just stood there and looked at me, and said, ‘You are talking fine.  How did you learn that?’