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Updated: June 26, 2025
"The last time I saw him," he said with a sigh, "was at Holmes's seventieth-birthday breakfast, in Boston. But then his mind was like a splendid bridge with one span missing; he had what is it you doctors call it? aphasia, yes, that is it he had to grope for his words. But what a serene, godlike air! He was like a plucked eagle tarrying in the midst of a group of lesser birds.
We could carry it through so that even the doctors would help us. Remember, aphasia will do for a girl nowadays what nothing else can do." "Aphasia!" Florence repeated harshly. "Call it what you like weakness anything. I I loved that man not the one who followed me another. I believed him. But he left me left me in a place across in Brooklyn.
"I I guess there's nothing in that theory," said Amos Vick, shaking his head. "She didn't run away with anybody. That's out of the question. I'm working on the theory that she sort of went out of her head or something and wandered away. You read about cases like that in the papers. I forget what they call the disease, but there's " "Aphasia," supplied Courtney absently.
Kennedy took a pencil and hastily jotted down something on a piece of paper which he tossed over to me. It read: 1.Love, family trouble. 2.A romantic disposition. 3.Temporary insanity, self-destruction. 4.Criminal assault. 5.Aphasia. 6.Kidnapping. "Those are the reasons why people disappear, eliminating criminals and those who have financial difficulties.
In pure motor aphasia the lesion is in the posterior part of the left third frontal convolution; in cases of pure sensory aphasia, the lesion is in the left first temporal convolution.
The word, in so far as it is material, undeniably continues an internal material process, for aphasia and garrulity have known physical causes. In the vibrations which we call words the hidden complexities of cerebral action fly out, so to speak, into the air; they become recognisable sounds emitted by lips and tongue and received by the ear.
Henderson delved more in the mysteries of astronomy and practical mechanics. The doctor's letter to Professor Henderson read as follows: "Dear Professor: "I am urged to write to you again because of something that has recently come to my knowledge regarding a subject we once discussed. In our age, when mental and nervous diseases are so rapidly increasing, aphasia victims are becoming more common.
Kennedy took a pencil and hastily jotted down something on a piece of paper which he tossed over to me. It read: 1. Love, family trouble. A romantic disposition. Temporary insanity, self-destruction. Criminal assault. Aphasia. Kidnapping. "Those are the reasons why people disappear, eliminating criminals and those who have financial difficulties.
And in the higher reaches of mental function, the same antithesis comes out in the contrast of sensory and motor aphasia, alexia, sensory and motor types of memory and imagination, etc.
Ogle accounts for this peculiar manifestation of aphasia by supposing that the poison produces spasm of the middle cerebral arteries, and when the symptom remains a permanent defect the continuance of the aphasia is probably due to thrombosis of arteries above the temporary constriction.
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