Greetings everyone. Did you all enjoy your Thanksgiving break? Now, today I will talk to you about a question that we stutters always have on our minds- What causes Stuttering? No one knows what really causes it, but the most popular theory is that is a gene that skips a generation. Yet, I found some weird and disturbing facts on this question. My quest on this question started back to the Ancient Romans. During the Roman period, a scientist by the name of Galen said that stuttering was caused by four fluids in the body (yellow bile, blood, black vile and phlegm) being inbalenced. During the 1500's, Hieronymus Mercurilalis suggested that in order to reduce this inbalence that people would have to have changes in diet, less lovemaking (for men only), and vomiting. (Ew! Thank Heavens I was not eating.)
Around the 1700&1800's in Europe, doctors suggested that in order to reduce stuttering that people would have to take their tongue out with scissors, removing the posterior tongue, cutting nerves, neck and lip muscles. They even took out your tonsils and uvula. (I'm glad that they don't do that today.) Italian pantholigist Giovanni Morgagni suggested that stuttering was attributred to your hyroid bone. Cures were to be said from drinking water from a snail's shell to hitting a stutter in the face. Today most people agree that stuttering can't be gone from your lives, but you can have stuttering therapy to reduce it. So, the quest for what causes stuttering contunies to this day....
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