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

  • Henry Charlton Bastian
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    068 express his wish to the gate-porter, and succeeded only hy pointing to the apartments which his friend had occupied. Dr. Osborn, after frequent careful investigations, ascertained the following particulars concerning his patient:— 1. He perfectly comprehended every word said to him. 2. He perfectly comprehended printed language. He continued to read a newspaper every day; and when examined proved that he had a very clear recollection of all that he read. Having pro- cured a copy of Andral’s ‘ Pathology ’ in French, he read it with great diligence, having lately intended to embrace the medical profession. 3. He expressed his ideas in writing with considerable fluency; and when he failed it appeared to arise merely from confusion, and not from inability, the words being orthographically correct, but sometimes not in their proper places. 4. His general mental power seemed unimpaired. He wrote correctly answers to historical questions; he translated Latin sen- tences accurately; he added and subtracted numbers of difierent denominations with uncommon readiness; he also played well at the game of draughts. 5. His 'power of repeating words after another person was almost confined to certain monosyllables; and in repeating the letters of the alphabet he could never pronounce h, q, u, v, w, x, and Zf although he often uttered these sounds in attempting to pronounce the other letters. The letter i, also, he was very seldom able to pronounce. 6. In order to ascertain and place on record the peculiar imper- fection of language which he exhibited. Dr. Osborn selected and laid before him the following sentence from the bye-laws of the College of Physicians, viz., “ It shall he in the poiver of the College to examine or not examine any Liceyitiate previous to his admission to a Felloivship, as they shall think fit Having set him to read, he read as follows:—“An the he what in the temother of the trothotodoo to majorum or that emidrate eni enikrastrai mestreit to ketra totomhreidei to ra fromtreido as that kekritest” The same passage was presented to him a few days afterwards, and he then read it as follows:—Be mather he in the kondreit of the compestret to samtreis amtreit emtreido and tem- treido mestreiterso to his eftreido turn hried rederiso of deid daf drit des tresfC* He generally knew that he spoke incorrectly, although he
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