Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students / by Theodore Kirchhoff.

Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students / by Theodore Kirchhoff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The dotted line gives a schematic posterior boundary of the apperception organ in tlie frontal brain, and the anterior boundary of the perception organ in the occipital and parietal lobes. This line incloses the centro-motor region. These three tracts coincide Fig. 3. approximately with the areas of disti-ibution of the anterior, pos- terior, and middle cerebral arteries. The fact that the centres for Fig. 4. speech and writing (which are developed in one hemisphere alone) are not contained in our centi-o-motor region, proves the merely schematic value of the division ; nevertheless these two important