Interesting ways to deal with stuttering in the past

I thought this might be interesting. There have been many remedies and attempts in the past to help with stuttering. Almost all have failed or not worked well enough. So here are just some of them. Couple of these remedies are understandable for people who do not have much knowledge, while others are downright ridiculous, while still others may be shocking or cruel. Those cruel methods were probably a way to punish stutterers rather than to actually help them. They may have been the product of misinformation, religion and superstition.

These famous people have come up with some techniques of their own:

Demosthenes the great Greek orator put marbles in his mouth and spoke, sometimes he yelled with them at the beach.

Marylin Monroe the incredibly famous actress, model, and Hollywood icon, used her breathy voice. (this really helped her)

Charles Canon Kingsley, a nineteenth-century orator, writer and chaplain to Queen Victoria recommended that a stutterer should eat a 'manly' diet of beef and beer!

Other treatments of the past include:

Prayer/priest

Various superstitious

Various herbal remedies

Adult stammerers were advised to eat a certain green grasshopper called "kimem"

Having Correct posture (this actually helps me!)

moving one's feet when talking

Apply ointment on throat

Holding nutmeg under tongue.

Person who stutters must eat a fruit that has been pecked by a bird

Strengthening the tongue as a muscle

Now here are the truly bizarre(and horrific) ones:

Hitting the child in the mouth with a dish towel

Heating a metal tool or a knife, letting it cool slightly and then briefly applying it several times to the lips of a child who stutters.

Consistently drinking water from a snail shell for the rest of one's life

Hitting a stutterer in the face when the weather is cloudy

Cutting the membrane (lingua frenum) beneath the tongue

To cure juvenile stuttering, fresh and bloody reindeer lungs used to be flung at the stammering child!