An account of the beginning of a stutter in a two-year-old boy who had suffered a very severe and prolonged illness during bottle-feeding. His speech improved when he was given caramels to suck in imitation of an elder brother, while at the same time the child who had been 'clean' from an unusually early age also began to outdo his brother, enuretic at night, by anal and urethral incontinence, the latter lasting for some months by day.