Brain as an organ of mind / by H. Charlton Bastian.

  • Henry Charlton Bastian
Date:
1880
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Credit: Brain as an organ of mind / by H. Charlton Bastian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for their mistakes in writing—these may be detected at once, or not till the occasion of some subsequent perusal of such writing. Persons who are liable to make such mistakes in expression, may occasionally altogether wrongly apprehend some word which they hear spoken or which they see in writing or in print, in a way quite surprising to themselves, when the mistake is recognized. ‘ 4.—Damage to Commissures hetiveen the Auditory and the Visual Word-Centres. On reflection it will seem clear that there must be at least two sets of commissures between the Auditory and the Visual Word-Centres; the one (a) for transmitting stimuli from the Visual to the Auditory Centres (visuo- auditory fibres), as in the act of reading aloud, or naming at sight; the other (b) for conveying impressions in the opposite direction, i.e., from the Auditory to the Visual Centre (audito-visual fibres), as in the act of writing from dictation. Both sets of commissures may be simultaneously damaged, and this seems to have been the cause of the most notable defects met with in two of the writer’s own patients, whose cases are subjoined. The first of them came under observation at the National Plospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, in 1869,^' but nothing similar was encountered until last summer, when the second example was seen. The writer is not aware that any other such cases are on record. A middle-aged woman had an attack of right Hemiplegia with pretty complete Aphasia in the early part of the year 1868. In the course of some months she improved considerably, though she con- tinued subject to ‘fits’ at intervals. After twelve months she was able to walk about with a little assistance, though she was still
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