Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-24
VARIOUS FORMS or AtAAslA.
eAs Incurable. Mysterious Disease That
Battles Human knowledge.

eAs Incurable. Mysterious Disease That
Battle. Human knowledge.
There are four forms of aphasia which
oo-exist, or which may be found isolated:
~ The loss Of the power of understand
ing spoken words, or, as it has been
aamed, rather improperly, since the fail
me is not physical but mental, verbal
asafness; q, verbal blindness or the in
sbility to read; C3) motor aphasia, or the
Inss Of the power Of articulate speech;
~ agraphia Ia term invented, we be-
ieve, by the English ,hysician. DR.. Ogle),
o. the loss of the power Of writing. An
instance of the loss of the faculty of un-
derstanding spoken words while that OF
understanding words written remained,
b quoted by NJ. Ballet from Abercrom-
bie. II is that of gentleman farmer in
Scotland, who recognized the sounds of
spoken words without understanding
their meaning, and who, to make COM
munication with his laborers possible,
bad written list in his room Of the most
ordinary terms. On hearing without in
the least comprehending the spoken
words, he turned to his list. and his per-
oeption of what was said became clear.
OF verbal blindness las ii is called, NJ.
Ballet gives an instance of French mer-
chant, whom he calls NJ. p, man of
tair cultivation, and more or less of 4
reading habit, who, through an accident
IN hunting. lost the faculty of reading.
N. p. understood perfectly everything
that was said to him, answered questions
with much precision, and expressed HIM
self with certain degree Of facility.
Moreover, he wrote with ease, not only
ais name and address, but long letter,
md that without any notable mistake in
,rthography. The interesting fact is
hat, though he could write, and did it
with certain ease, he was incapable OF
reading. Il write he said, as if with
my eyes closed; do not read what
write In fact he was wholly unable to
re-read the words which he had traced a
few seconds before The letters them
selves written in this condition were
quite equal to those which he had writ
ten before the acc dent befel him.
OF motor aphasia, or the inability to
nse articulate speech. NJ. Ballet gives in
stances of a patient at the Saltpetriere,
whose reply TO all questions consisted OF
the word -Macassa, macassa:" of another
who could only say -Monomomentif;" Of
third who WAS reduced to the expre1-
non -lqui phophoiqui;" and of a foarIh
whose vocabulary did not go beyond
.Badeu. ahaden badena." The poor
Baudelaire could say only ~Cre nom, ere
nom," being in this respect inferior to a
very distinguished lady, whose converse
Aonal powers extended to- though not
beyond, the entire phrase OF which Bau-
3elaire gave the usual abbreviation. Still
more advanced was another lady. who
repeated at every moment, Madame,
ste, mon Dieu, est il possible, bonjou
Madame
In the earlier stages of the malady
proper names were forgotten. An emf
nent man of science was reduced to des-
gnate the person Of whom he spoke as
my colleague who invented such and
such a thing" Next common nouns dis
appear. When the Able Perier asked
Tor his hat he said: ~Give me my-wha;
me puts on ones" His coat wa
What is worn to be dressed in" Scis
sors, with another patient, were the
things one cuts; the window, what one
looks through, what gives light. Wha
san not be said by people affected with
motor aphasia can sometimes be sung by
them. An officer who could not pro-
nounce the words ~enfant' and -patrie,"
whose powers of speech were confined
10 the word ~pardi" and the letter b.
was capable of singing with perfect ar
ticulation the first couplet of the Mar
seillaise." A farmer, -du comte de WIKI
low don't parle Graves" could not pro-
nounce the names Of his wife and chill
dren except by reading them. A strik-
ing instance of agraphia is that of Rus
sian officer. well acquainted with
Russian. French and German, who,
having been afflicted with motor
sphasia, as regards French and German,
afterward became subject to agraphia as
regards all the three languages, though
be retained or regained the power Oh
ceading and speaking them. A woman,
,eing asked to write her name, produced
the words "sumil siclaa satreni." and
gave her address as -Sunesr nut to meT
inu LAIN An English naval officer,
wishing to write ~Royal medical officer
belonging to the admiralty" was con-
strained TO add the termination "dendd"
10 each word.-Saturday Review.