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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    difficulty in recalling the names of simple numerals than of letters (see p. 643), which is not to be wondered at when we recollect that these in all are nine in number rather than twenty-six, and that the observation directed to individual numerals has always been of necessity much more intent than the observation of single letters. The degree of familiarity with a set of objects or a set of actions is always a matter of great importance in these cases of impaired cerebral power: the newly acquired or more complex acts are those which first become impossi- ble, whilst those which are most familiar and most deeply ingrained are the last to be interfered with. Dr. Lasegue knew a musician completely aphasic, who, being unable to speak or write in the ordinary way, could, after hearing a passage of music, write such passage on paper with ease. D. Aphemia. 7.—Damage to Emissive Channels hetiveen the Audi- tory and the Motor Word-Centres, The conditions now to be referred to are related to de- fective communications between the Auditory and the Motor Word-Centres, in much the same way that those of the last section are related to defective communications between the Visual and the Motor Word-Centres. With the necessary changes, what is there said will also here hold good in reference to the situations in which lesions of the Brain may produce Aphemia, with the addition that this particular defect may also be produced by a small lesion implicating the lower or medullary centres for Articulation. These cases, as isolated defects, are, like those of simple Agraphia, extremely rare; though one of a typical cha- racter has been recorded by Trousseau (see p. 669). Simi-
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