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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    It will be observed that this patient’s state on April 2 was distinctly different from what it became towards the end of the month, after the two fits. At first he had no power of recalling the names of common objects—he could not name them at sight. Neither could he volun- tarily recall his own name. And when, after prompt- ing, he endeavoured to repeat words, his pronunciation showed distinct defects of the incoordinate type. In attempting to read aloud from a book these incoordinate defects were so marked, as to make what he read quite unintelligible; neither did he seem to comprehend any v/ritten characters except simple numerals. Towards the end of April, however, whilst the patient’s utterance had become more distinct in repeating words which he had heard, he could not even emit an unintelligible jargon in attempting to read. At the same time he had become able to understand what he read, though he still could not name even a single letter at sight, nor could he wulte a single word from dictation—both these latter processes requiring for their performance the proper relation (and therefore the integrity of the commissures) between the Visual and the Auditory Word-Centres. That part of the commissure which conveys stimuli from the Visual to the Auditory Word-centres (as in reading aloud) seems to have been more extensively damaged after the two fits than it was before. The fact, however, that he could read and pronounce the names of numerals suggests the possi- bility that these more familiar units may have been articulated by means of stimuli passing direct from the Visual Word-Centre to the half of the Kinsesthetic Word- Centre concerned with Speech-Movements (see p. 624). Dr. Broadbent has recorded an extremely rare and interesting result of cerebral disease, closely allied to that found in the two cases just related. His patient, however.
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