Mutism and aphasia : a clinical lecture / by Hermann Gutzmann ; authorized translation by Max R. Dinkelspiel.

  • Gutzmann, Hermann, 1865-1922.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Mutism and aphasia : a clinical lecture / by Hermann Gutzmann ; authorized translation by Max R. Dinkelspiel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uv Repriuted from The Philadelphia Medical Journal, July 12, 1902. Authorized Translation by Max R. Oinkelspiel, M. D., Of all the central disturbances affecting the power of expression there is none that more excites our in- terest than the absence of speech. In the cases which I will show you you will see the representa- tives of the most frequent varieties of these central deprivations of speech. As a general thing in modern times, one is accus- tomed to apply the term aphasia when there is an absence of speech. It is, however, not entirely cor- rect to apply that expression to all the forms which come under consideration. It will be better for us to reserve the term for those cases in which speech had existed and subsequently became lost. We would therefore consider those patients as having aphasia who have been deprived of their power of speech, by reason of an embolus in the brain, apo- plexy or by any tumor which causes disturbance of the central pathway, or by some psychical disturb- ance that has deprived them of a power of speech which previously had been perfect. In contradis- tinction to these cases there are those patients in whom there has never been a thorough development of the motor speech center and in whom there had originally existed various impediments to the devel- opment of that center. We will therefore not speak here of aphasia, but of mutism. Audimutitas. By the term audimutitas, in Ger- man Horstummheit”, we understand a condition occurring in children who hear Derfectlv well anrt \ By HERMANN GUTZMANN, M. D.,‘ of Berlin, Germany.