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Updated: June 26, 2025
I myself have seen mild aphasia in an overworked man, but this sudden dumbness was uncanny though, as the Blastoderm himself might have said, due to "perfectly natural causes." "He'll have to take leave after this," said the Doctor. "He won't be fit for work for another three months. No; it isn't insanity or anything like it. It's only complete loss of control over the speech and memory.
Habershon reports the case of a woman who on seeing one of her children scalded fell unconscious and motionless, and remained without food for three days. It was then found that she suffered from complete aphasia. Five weeks after the incident she could articulate only in a very limited vocabulary.
Either your nerves or your brain will give way. Tell me, does a week pass in which you do not read in the papers of a case of aphasia of some man lost, wandering nameless, with his past and his identity blotted out and all from that little brain clot made by overwork or worry?"
The conception of aphasia, once classical, universally admitted, believed to be unshakeable, had been considerably shaken in that period of fourteen years. "All the arguments," he says, "from fact which may be invoked in favour of a probable accumulation of memories in the cortical substance, are drawn from local disorders of memory.
When, again, an injury comes to the auditory centre in the temporal region, we find the converse of the case just described; the defect is then called Auditory Aphasia. The patient can not now speak or write words which he hears, and can not speak spontaneously in proportion as he is accustomed to depend upon his memories of the word sounds.
He would like to send a message through her to Radowitz to say something What could he say? He had seen Radowitz for a few minutes after the inquest to thank him for his evidence and for what he had done for Sir Arthur. Both had hurried through it. Falloden had seemed to himself stricken with aphasia. His mouth was dry, his tongue useless.
Religion may suffer from aphasia and still be religion; it may utter misleading or nonsensical words and yet intend and convey the truth. The methods of the Salvation Army are older than doctrinal Christianity, and may long survive it.
'We suffer, we ghosts, he said in effect, 'from a malady akin to aphasia in the living.
At this moment, however, the gong for dressing sounded, and we went to our several apartments, after this emotional specimen of "Evenings at Home." "What we suffer from most," said the spectre, when I had partly recovered from my fright, "is a kind of aphasia." The spectre was sitting on the armchair beside my bed in the haunted room of Castle Perilous.
Muddied to the eyes, wet, often with blood caked on them, many were suffering from the curious aphasia produced by continued trouble and the concussion of shells bursting. Some were dazed and speechless, some deafened, and yet, strange to say, said a correspondent, no face wore the terrible animal war look. They seemed to have been softened, instead of hardened, by their awful experience.
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