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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    CHAPTEE XXX. FURTHER PROBLEMS IN REGARD TO THE LOCALIZATION OP HIGHER CEREBRAL FUNCTIONS. The study of the various defects of Speech, and of Intellec- tual Expression in general, produced by Cerebral Disease is of great importance in many ways. An accumulation of instances more or less crudely observed must almost necessarily precede the attempt to analyze and classify these various defects. Thereafter observers will work better and with more chance of success in two directions. They will (1) have learned more fully how to observe such cases, that is, what is specially to be looked for in the way of ability or defect in persons so affected; and (2) they may, whenever the precise mental defects manifested during life have been clearly recognized and recorded, as the occasion arises, note with more hope of profitable scientific result the exact region of the Brain which has been damaged. The error of massing together all the varieties of ‘ loss of speech ’ under one name, such as ‘ Aphasia,’ and then altogether rejecting doctrines of Cerebral Localiza- tion, because the lesions in such dissimilar easel have not always been found in some one part of the Brain, is manifest and absurd, and yet it is one which has been too often repeated in recent years. Even such an accomplished physician as Trousseau spoke of a represen- tative case of Amnesia as a typical instance of Aphasia,
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