Medicine.

Date:
[1919?]
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    (b) Central motor area (Rolandic).—Jacksonian con¬ vulsions, followed by monoplegia. (c) Parieto-occipital lobe (angular region).—Visual aphasia, with or without hemianopia. (d) Basal ganglia (internal capsule).—Hemiplegia, liemi- amesthesia, and hemianopia. (e) Cerebellum.—General symptoms severe, marked ataxia, “drunken” gait, with tendency to fall towards affected side. Pressure of tumour may cause cranial nerve palsies, or hydrocephalus. Reflexes may be variable. What is the Treatment ? Only in syphilitic cases can anything in the way of curative drug treatment be attempted. In these, specific measures should be pushed. In the others, potassium iodide may cause temporary benefit. Palliative measures for the relief of pain, etc., should be employed. Surgically it may at times be possible to remove the tumour, and trephining is often performed for the relief of pressure. APHASIA. Define ilds Term. Shortly it means .the inability to understand spoken words, though hearing is unimpaired, or failure to translate ideas into words, though there is no muscular paralysis of the apparatus of speech. It is a symptom of many cerebral diseases, in which there is a cortical or subcortical lesion, interfering with the receptive, perceptive, or emissive centres of sj ieech. What forms of Aphasia occur ? To explain these it is necessary to review the apparatus concerned in speech. In acquiring language, impressions are taken up by the ear and eye, and stored in corresponding memory centres, while in another centre is stored the