On aphasia, or loss of speech : and the localisation of the faculty of articulate language / by Frederic Bateman.

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[1890]
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    tied the common carotid in two other instances, and he writes to say 'in neither of these was there any difficulty in speech, either as regards the idea or the power of titterance.' The connection between sinistral cerebral lesions and asemic troubles in the right hand is generally, although not invariably, observed; and an important question for inquiry is, the frequency of the coincidence of left hemi- plegia with aphasia in left-handed people. Instances of this combination have been recorded by several ob- servers. Dr. Wadham has published the case of a young man of eighteen, who belonged to a left-handed family, as four of his brothers, as well as himself, were left- handed ; a fatal termination having resulted, there was found to be an almost entire absence of the island of Reil on the right side, its place being occupied by a large cavity containing a little fluid and as mall amount of broken-down brain-matter; the left hemisphere was perfectly healthy. In nearly a hundred cases of paralysis with impairment of speech observed by Dr. Wm. Ogle, the palsy, except in three instances, was on the right side; in the three exceptions where the palsy was on the left, all the three persons were left-handed. M. Fere, at the Societe de Biologie, at Paris, reported a case of left hemiplegia with aphasia, describing it as simple logoplegia without agraphia, for the patient wrote with the right hand what he was unable to express by articulate language. This case, which at first sight seemed to contradict modern ideas of localisation, in reality confirmed them ; for on inquiry, it was found that the patient was left-handed.* • L'Encephale, 1885, No. 4, p. 481.