Lectures on localization in diseases of the brain : delivered at the Faculté de médecine, Paris, 1875 / by J.M. Charcot ; edited by Bourneville ; translated by Edward P. Fowler.

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1878
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    the only symptom, and atrophy of the third convolution was also the only corresponding lesion revealed by autopsy, (Figs. 13 and 14.) This is incontestably a fine example of cere- bral localization.^ The second branch of the Sylvian is the anterior parietal artery of Duret. I prefer to term it the artery of the ascend- ing frontal convolution (Fig. 9 and Fig. 12). Fig. 13.—Human brain, anterior lobe, left side. {Life size.) The third is the posterior parietal artery, Avhich I think Avould be better named artery of the ascejiding parietal con- volution (Fig. 9 and Fig. 12). The fourth branch goes to the gyrus angularis and the first sphenoidal convolution (Fig. 9 and Fig. 12). ' We published the complete observations of that case in Nos. 20 and 21 of the Progres Medical, 1874.