The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-11-26

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though he could not recollect his own
name or those of his acquaintances, he
never was at loss for the initial Of the
word he wished to use.
UNABLE TO SPEAK.
The telegraph communicating the |
word from the ear or eye to the word
center may be in working order. when
the line between this word-center and |
the organ or center Of speech is down."
In this case persons are 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 French artillery
officer, who had suffered from 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,
OF Which were slowly and loudly repeated
to him. But when he tried to speak,
only an unintelligible murmer was heard.
He could read aloud from book or pa
per without the slightest impediment,
but if the book or paper was taken away,
he could not repeat single word Of what
he had 50 distinctly read o moment be
fore. In this case it is to be presumed
that when the words came by way Of the
eye OF ear they stimulated the word-cen-
ters to the extent Of bringing 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 to
the presence Of the patient, who is en-
/ -, q eft
! 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 trouble Of this sort always replied
''my faith, or when pressed hard looked
impatient, and uttered fantastic oath
he had invested" BY the Christen'
name Of my heart!' f I asked him his
name and occupation" says the physl-
clan; che looked at me and answered,
my faith I ] insisted, but in spite of
his efforts, lie only shook his head with
an impatient gesture, excoiming, by
the Christen name Of my heart AS /
wished to find out how many words he
had at command / asked him, Are you
from a Northern ProyinceY He re-
heated like an echo, Northern Prov
ince. What's your name? North
ern Province?' Your professiong North
ern Province But your name is Mar
tin9, Yes. sir. You are sure it is
MARTINI tYes, sir. What part Of the
country do you come frong 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 anc
spelling is very much impaired, whlls
that of speech isaffectad only toa trihinf
extent After series Of epileptic fits
Young man first lost, but afterwards re
covered, his powers Of speech. And IN
great trouble was in writing. His pen
! manship was excellent, but he could no
| readily find the proper words and spelle
/ them badly. He was able to copy COZ
} rectly from printed book, making onl
one or two trivial errors; but in wrltln
, from dictation could not spell ut all. 4
Q could repeat perfectly the most dltlcu
7 sentences when they were read to him
: but when he attempted to read thel
] aloud himself he could not succeed at 81
wrongly pronouncing almost every woI
: of two or three syllahles. Perhaps tn
!, difficulty which some very intelligent an
+ well-educated person find i'll spelling co
a rectly, arises from an imperfectly deye
: oped ''visual word sense.
o USING THE WRONG WORD.
!. An elderly gentleman was st1ckt
# with paralysis which made him cor
!, pletely deaf, but did not interfere wi
It his powers Of motion or his vision. b
e in speaking he used wrong words, so
" to be unintelligible. He recognized Il
|! Doctor and was glad to see him, but
:, trying to call him by name spoke on
Is gibberish. He did not comprehel
70 writing. He looked at the sentent
fe '.Are you in pain" and exclaimed: 'Goc
ot good. God" He attempted to write /
70 ters; the address was written two or TIN
he times at the head Of the sheet, but ~
as dear sir" was written correctly. Il
sheet was filled with writing, but no wo
except wife was intelligible, the rest |
re ing utterly meaningless. Some lett
is were correctly formed, but no words
IN; til the end. where his name was sign
he with steady hand and in his usual mi
A ner. In April remittance being
ar him he was greatly excited, vainly try
Of to make himself understood. At LEM
to the letter announcing the remittal
Id, was shown him, and it pleased him,
of he was not quite satisfied until themol
uld was brought and counted bel
lde him. In asking for bottle
hit liniment he said 'Bring the cord. "
ece In speaking of pills he had been takl
ing he said he had been taking potat'
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