Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13
..,.eia-Meaning One Thing and
Saving Another.

.,,r;ous and very elaborate book has
written by an English physician, DR.
'.o,,an. of Norwich, on the remarkable
Dc De- which doctors call aphasia
assaS;a is the general name for disease,
Ap,aIIv but not invariably, connected
.s some serious affection of the brain,
W s;ob causes those who suffer from it fire.
nn,lv 10 articulate sounds or words very
qS.rent from the sounds or words they
- aiming at An aphasic lady has been
|orn for instance, to come forward to
net guest with cordial smile and out
..--yptched hand, and then articulate, Pig,
s s,r stupid foolI' in the place OF the
wards of welcome really expressing the
.,ougft in her mind, while in other cases
- words artlculated when the patient
-. Intending to read aloud, turned out
,nnly gibberish. Thus of one patient it
recorded:
lord the peculiar imperfection Of Ian
20 which he exhibited, DR.. Osborne
.'aSted the following sentence from the
laws of the College of Physicians, viz. !:
shau be in the po,cer Of the College to e.
n; ,. or not to eransia,e any Licenttate, pre-
ags tn his admission to Fellowship, as they
III think ft' Having requested him to
al this aloud, he read as follows: And
- hs ,ohat in the tena0t7ter Of the tr0thotodOo
na;oruu or that emidrate Elm einkrastrai
,s.srsit to ketra totonn6reidei to rd fronatreido
.t5m kekritest,' "-where, as the physi-
.ar remarked, the patient, though unable
/ artic1late the words and letters before
Inn did yet articulate combinations OF let
Ssr; and words much more difficult.
d Again, there is a case registered where
nan with this affection lost his way, as
ne may say, only in relation to single
{.ter-always substituting for f, so that
Ling lin Germany for Kaffee Coffee, he
nneaTed to ask for Kazze (sounded like
fatze, cat,) (Dr Bateman, p. 53) Again,
T,0.her case is given Up. 100 of gentle
an who, after a blow on the head, lost
- knowle lge of Greek, and did not ap-
2ear to have lost anything else.
Ri In some cases the mind seems to 60 in
Eearch of the right sound or word, and to
nc the wrong one, through some confu-
1pn in the action of the proper nerves or
,scles; in some cases not to know even
which sound to aim at all. Now, what
III .he proper mental Interpretation Of such
+ 1t. as these? How is it to be explained
81, without any loss of intelligence, the
ea. instrument of thought" as Ian
aye has been called, should so complete
deiy the power which produced it and
fined its exact sphere of duty?
The case Of the patient who, by blow
bis head, lost completely the knowledge
Greek, without appearing to suffer any
her loss whatever, would to many sug-
est as the physician who attended him
Dr. Scoresby Jackson) remarked, that the
eek knowledge was all deposited in a
circular square inch Of brain, the injury
which just destroyed this knowledge,
thout invading any other sphere of the
.enect. But this kind of fact does not
snd alone. A French priest, attended
NJ. Piorry, after an attack of paralysis
t entirely the power of employing sub
atives, while retaining in general the
command of all other parts Of speech.
bus, when he wanted to ask for his hat,
said 4" Doanez.moi &c qui Sc met sar Ia
r n" but he could not remember the
k-i for "head" any better than the word
hat" and his physician adds, "muis
mot tete ne lui uenai pos," and goes on
.ay that he sought to express the same
jag twenty times, but that he always got
An insurmountable difficulty whenever
came to a noun substantive.
Again, Dublin physician, DR.. Graves,
case in which patient could not re-
any noun substantive common or
bper) but could always recall its initial
ter. He therefore made himselfa pocket
tti0nary of the words in the most gen.
use, including the proper names of his
ldren, and servants, and friends, and In
= nversation would always refer to this
tonary. and run his eye down the initial
. Fer he recalled till he REACHED The name
which he was in search, keeping his
ger and eye fixed on the word until he
finished his sentences" but the mo-
[ tat ne had closed the book he again for
the name, though he never forgot the
ttial letter, and could always again re-
yer it by means Of his dictionary. Now,
e these three cases together, and we OBJ
I've that in one case the whole network
associations contained in a single lam
bye was lost through the agency Of the
lease; in the next case, only all the ex
pes of single part of speech (noun
tstantives) in one language, in the last
y not even this, but all the examples OF
same part of speech, minus the initial
Ter, which was uniformly retained.
here is case of patient in the Edin-
fgh Royal Infirmary, under DR.. Gard
whose loss of language was so com
ete that he could communicate with
= per people only by signs. After time
Gardner observed that the other pa
( pts in the infirmary thought this man
shamming, and the reason they gave
>, that though he could not speak in
other way, he could swear freely
this patient soon after died suddenly,
his brain was found to be much eaten
law with capcar