The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-11

uttle fTeuCu- one Ouly IepedUeU Ike
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 a trouble of this sort always replied
''my faith" or when pressed hard looked
impatient, and uttered a fantastic oath
he had invested the Christen'
name of my hearth 81 asked him his
name and occupation" says the physi-
clan; she looked at me and answered,
my faith = 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 As L
wished to find out how many words he
had at command asked him, Are you
from a Northern Province? He re-
peated like an echo, Northern Prov
ince.' What's your name? North
ern Province?' Your profession| North
ern Province But your name is Mar
tin?' 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 Christen' name of my heart!
UNABLE TO WRITE.
In other cases the power of writing and
spelling is very much impaired, whilst
that of speech is affected only to trifing
extent. After series of epileptic fits
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
rectly from q printed book, making only
| one or 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 "visual 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 paih?" and exclaimed: "Good,
good, God" He attempted to write let
ters; the address was written two or three
times at the head of the sheet, but ''My
dear sir" was written correctly The
sheet was filed with writing, but no word
except wife was Ineligible, the rest be-
ing utterly meaningless. Some letters
were correctly formed, but no words un-
til the end, where his name was signed
with a steady hand and in his usual man.
ner. In April a 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 the money
was brought and counted before
him. In asking for a bottle O
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, h,
said, "Take care of the break-fall" An
other patient, an old lady, spoke word
very distinctly and exactly, but the word
either had no application or were ludi
crously inappropriate. She would ris,
very politely to receive a visitor, ant
kindly motioning to chair, say: "Yo,
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 man insisted OF
calling his bed his garden, and not unit
the words were written out could he b.
made to understand his mistake. Still
another, after an attack of paralysis, al
ways transposed the letters of q word, a
J in calling the word flute tufe, puc fo
cup, gum for mug. A woman coul,
write "LGadon with her left hand, bu
! not "cat or "dog" even after hearin
, them pronounced, though she could spel
them very well. In case of gas in
! spector, after an acute attack, he who'll
! lost the power of writing and reading
/, even a gas-meter probably. If any fa
/. 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. "Is it blue?
, "No." "Green?" "No." cred?
!, "Well, that's more like it." "Orange?
! eyes, orange" A square and circl
I | were shown him, and he could not nam
! either; but when the circle was called
| square, he said, pointing to the square
a "No, but that is.
e MAN WHO SAID eyes TO EVERYTHING
t An Englishman who had been able t
y transact some business very intelligent
e went into saloon for beer, and to hi
It astonishment found he could not speak
: Otherwise he was as well and strong a
n ever. On arriving at home he could sa
g ued fortnight, after which he gradual
regained his speech, but was still unabl
to write. An intelligent, cheerful ol
q gentleman who could preside at Dime
! eat with his left hand, give signs to IL
n servants to pass various articles, an
4 play an excellent game of cards, coul
r "How old are you?" eyes" "Ho
!, long have you been illp' eyes" f
:, was not satisfied, however, with the,
= replies, and made impatient gesture
- looking pleased when questions to whic
Eyes" could be properly answered we
y put to him. One day lady picked I
e his handkerchief, and he said to her,
IS loud and distinct voice, "thanks
y His friends all thought he had recovert
!, his power of speech, and he was IL
4 plored to say the word again. 1t was +
!, peated to him aloud, and he tried, but
!. was all in vain. He never succeeded
7 saying that or anything but Eyes" agai
!, WRITING WRONG.
:, Another person, on being asked
It write his name, wrote twas, was, was
}, He knew perfectly well this was not VIII
d ] he wanted to write, and was much a