The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11

the organs of speech, which, without this
stimulus, the mans brain could not do.
THE HUMAN PARROT.
Sometimes speech is wholly limited in
merely repeating the words spoken to
the presence of the patient, who is en-
tirely unable to volunteer statement.
A woman who was born in Italy, and had
lived in Spain and France, was, by dis
ease of the brain, deprived of her use Of
Italian and Spanish, and could speak but
little French. She only repeated like
an echo and without attaching any mean
ing to them, the words pronounced in
her presence Another woman who had
this initiative trouble, repeated words,
even in foreign tongues, she had never
heard before. In the hospital when one
patient coughed she would initiate the
cough at once, and repeated everything
that was said to her. A man suffering
from q trouble of this sort always replied
'smy faith, or when pressed hard looked
impatient, and uttered fantastic oath
he had invested" the Christen'
name of my hearth 81 asked him his
name and occupation" says the physi-
clan; "he looked at me and answered,
my faith T I insisted, but in spite of
his efforts, he only shook his head with
an impatient gesture, exclaiming, BY
the Christen' name of my heart J AS 1
wished to find out how many words he
had at command asked him, Are you
from a Northern ProvinceY He re-
peated like an echo, Northern Prov
ince.' What's your name?' North
crn Province?' Your professionP North
ern Province But your name is Mar
tint? Yes, sir you are sure it is
MARTINI 'Yes, SIR What part of the
country do you come from?' Martin. ;
No, that's your name But with an
an impatient gesture he exclaimed, By
the Chrjsten' name of my hearth"
UNABLE TO WRITE.
In other cases the power of writing and
spelling is very much impaired, whilst
that of speech is affected only to a trifing
extent. After series of epileptic fits a
young man first lost, but afterwards re-
covered, his powers of speech. And his
great trouble was in writing. His pen
manship was excellent, but he could not
readily find the proper words and spelled
them badly. He was able to copy cor
reetly from printed book, making only
one OF two trivial errors; but in writing
from dictation could not spell at ALL He
could repeat perfectly the most difficult
sentences when they were read to him;
but when he attempted to read them
aloud himself he could not succeed at all,
wrongly pronouncing almost every word
of two or three syllables. Perhaps the
difficulty which some very intelligent and
well-educated person find in spelling cor
rectly, arises from an imperfectly devel-
oped 'tvisual word sense"
USING THE WRONG WORD.
An elderly gentleman was stricken
with paralysis which made him COM
pletely deaf, but did not interfere with
his powers of motion or his vision. But
In speaking he used wrong words, SO as
| to be unintelligible. He recognized the
Doctor and was glad to see him, but in
trying to call him by name spoke only
| gibberish. He did not comprehend
writing. He looked at the sentence,
'.Are you in pain?' and exclaimed: "Good,
good, God. He attempted to write let
ters; the address was written two or three
dmes at the head of the sheet, but "My
dear sir" was written correctly. The
sheet was filled with writing, but no word
except wife was Ineligible, the rest be-
ing utterly meaningless. Some letters
were correctly formed, but no words I'M
til the end, where his name was signed
with steady hand and in his usual man.
ner. In April remittance being due
him he was greatly excited, vainly trying
to make himself understood. At length
the letter announcing the remittance
was shown him, and it pleased him, but
he was not quite satisfied until themoney
was brought and counted before
him. In asking for a bottle oi
liniment he said: Bring the cord"
In speaking of pills he had been taking,
he said he had been taking potatoes
There was often an association between
his ideas and words, as when he saw then
moving his vest with his watch in it, he
said, "Take care of the break-fall." !" An
other patient, an old lady, spoke words
very distinctly and exactly, but the words
either had no application or were ludi
crously inappropriate. She would rist
very politely to receive a visitor, ant
kindly motioning to a chair, say: "Yor
pig, you animal, you nasty beast" mean
ing by this that they were to take seat
and was wholly unconscious of her in
sulting words.
In another instance a man insisted OF
calling his bed his garden, and not unit
the words were written out could he b
made to understand his mistake. Stl
another, after an attack of paralysis, al
ways transposed the letters of a word, a
in calling the word flute tufe, puc fo
cup, gum for mug. A woman coul
write 'sLoadon with her left hand, bu
not "cat !" or "dog" even after hearin
, them pronounced, though she could spe
them very well. In case of gas il
! spector, after On acute attack, he who'll
! lost the power of writing and reading
!, even a gas-meter probably. If any ia
.. miliar object was shown him he coul
not call it by name, though if it occurre
!. in conversation he pronounced it with
out hesitation. Asked for the color of
, card he could not give it. els it blue?
"No." "Green?" "No." cred:
!, "Well, that's more like it" "Orange:
! eyes, orange" A square and circ
+ were shown him, and he could not nam
! either; but when the circle was called
/ square, he said, pointing to the squar,
a "No, but that is.
e A MAN WHO SAID 'sYEs" TO EVERYTHING
t An Englishman who had been able
y transact some business very intelligent
e went into saloon for beer, and to h
It astonishment found he could not speal
l. OUlerWlSe lle WIS us well dllu SLrOuB
n ever. On arriving at home he could ss
e only "oh, dear! oh, dear!'' This contil
e ued fortnight, after which he gradual
regained his speech, but was still unab
to write. An intelligent, cheerful
q gentleman who could preside at Dime
/ cat with his left hand, give signs to t
n servants to pass various articles, a
n play ar excellent game of cards, cou
| w 1u To asked
r. GLOW old are you?'' '.Yes." "H'
- : long have you been ILL" 'eYes."
:. was not satisfied, however, with the
d d replies, and made impatient gestur,
IL looking pleased when questions to whi
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