Richland beacon., 1880-11-27

| sun recollected tie initial and could get
| al The word by turning to his book. Al
though he could not recollect his own
name or those Of his acquaintances. he
never was at a loss for the initial Of the
word he wished to use.
UNABLE TO SPEAK.
The telegraph communicating the
word from the ear or eve to the word
center may be in working order. when
the line between this worl-ccntcr and
the organ or center of speech is down. ="
III 'iilS case persons ale entirely able to
comprehend what Is said to them. but.
unless by some accident or event not
under their control, they cannot put
Their thoughts into speech
Many years ago a French artillery
| officer, who had suffered from n stroke
OF palsy. recovered the Use Of his hands
and feet, He was able to speak distinctly
words which he made no effort To speak,
or which were slowly and loudly " repeated
To hlm. But when lie h'ici to speak.
Only an unintelligible murmer was heard.
He could read aloud from book or pa.
per without the slightest impcdiment,
hut II the book or paper was taken away,
he could not repeat single word of what
he had SO distinctly read moment be-
fore. In this case it is to be presumed
that when the words came bv wav Of the
eye or ear they stimulated the word-cen-
ters to the extent of lringing into play
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 -
the presence Of the patient, who Is en-
tircly unable to volunto~r a statement.
4 woman who was born Ia italy. AMI had
lived In Spain Franc. WAS, hy dis
ease OF the bral ..'privSd of her use of
Italian and Spar and could speak bnt
little French. 4' only repeated like
an echo and wltbsr attaching any mean
ing to them. til, Aords pronounced in
her presence. Anotiar woman who had
raI, initiative trou!le, repeated words,
even III foreign tonc.a, she had never
heard before. Ia the AIrpital whea one
patient coughed she " ,L initiate the
cough & once, and repsate, overv.hing
that was said to her. A . ia lteri,-
from II trouble of this sort always mpH..I
my faith, or when pressed harilooked
impatient. and uttered fantastic oath
he had vested" BY the Christen'
name Of my heart" II asked him his
name and occupation" SAYS the physi-
clan; "he looked at me and answered.
my faith = l insisted, bat in spite Of
his efforts. he only shook his head with
an impatient gesture, exclaiming, BY
the Christen' name of my heart As 1
wished to find ont how many words he
had at command / asked him, Are You
from Northern Provincey He re-
peated like an echo, Northern PRIV
ince.' What's your name? 'N9rth-
ern Province? Your professiouT North
ern Province But your name is Mar
TIM? Yes. sir 'You are sure it is
Martin? Yes, sir. What part of the
country do you come from?' Martin
No. that's your name. But with an
Gil impatient gesture he exclaimed, BY
the Christen' name OF my heartr
UNABLE TO WRITE.
In other cases the power of writing and
spelling is very much impaired, whilst
that Of speech is affected only toa trifling
extent. After series Of epileptc fits q
Young man first lost, but afterwards re-
covered, his powers of speech. And his
great trouble was i'll writing. His pen
lnanship was excellent, but he could not
readily find the proper words and spelled
them badly. He was able to copy cor
rectly from a 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,
hut 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 ''visrlal 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, 20 rs
to he 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: Cool,
good, God" He attempted to write et-
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 nm
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 the money
was brought aud counted before
him. In asking for a bottle o
liniment he said: Bring the cord"
In Speaking of pills he had been taking
h~-saiA he had been taking potatoes