Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-18
HAD BUT FIVE WORDS



for hls cntirc vocabulary
A real, living. breathing man; man |
with all tho desires, all tho needs, all the |
passions Of ordinary everyday persons; q
man with lungs as strong az bellows; q
man with voice as natural as child'H;
a man with face without twitoh of
paralysis; man that could laugh, cry OF
even sing; man who knew his friends
whom hc saw them, recognized his food
when he alto 10, listened With dnterost TO
music when no heard 1t, felt tho Resistance
and qualities OF objects whom 10 touched
them; a man who could understand per
foctiy oil you said TO him, and yet himself
could sag next 70 nsthing-ins short, q man
whoss thoughts, omotiens and feelings
were entirely shnt up in tho prison Of his
own inner experience, except SO far aa be
could communicate them by means Of
gestures and Eve small words.
Such man was the famous French
snan, 10 Long. a Ave worded mani
Ask Lc Long q question, and II he
wanted 20 say yes, Ike polite French
man, no answered, "Oul." II, however
hIt answer was negative, with equal po
lltonoss he answered, "Non." These
were two OF his Two words. Tho third
word pronounccablo by this few wordcd
snAn was his own name, and oven that no
couldn't say Just right. He called IT 10
Lo''--thnt y TO say, the nasal sound "ng"
whom 10 occurred In his own nnmc, was
TOO much ovon for this Fronchinan. Yet
the nnsal sound In mon no pronounced
with case. But little idioeyncrasy In
pronunciation Ike this was nothing 10
| man OF flyc words lie Long was glad
enough 10 pronounce his name in any
fashion, was glad enough to DO able to say
| plainly In his own native tongue yes
and mo" for whom IL came TO expressing
| oil tho rest OF his human wishes md hn
man thinking, which WINS Just rs normal
| as that Of other people, no had only two
words left with which 10 do it--"tols' "a
corruption OF 'trols'i) aud "touiours." by
"tois" Le Long indicated numbers from
one TO tho greatest magnitude. BY
"touJours' he tried To convey all ideas
that he couldn't express by his stock Of
four words and by gestures
"Oni," "nun,n 10 10, "tos' and
"toujoursl" This was tho remarkable
verbal outfit OF nm almost wordlcss Fronoh-
man.
Il Is not surprslng that n i've worded
mnn should hayoset 30 eminent scientific
Investigator ~ tho French physielan
BrocA, to thinking A Ave worded man
would sut anybody 10 thinking.
When. therefore, In 1861, Broca got no.
quaintod with 10 Long, and at 10 Longs
death got nm opportunity to examine his
brain, he did such good thinking that he
soon onrne forward with scientific dogma
that excited universal attention ut tho time
md set the medical world all nRos. Brocn
knew what good many physicians before
, his day kncw-that there were on record a
number Of strange cases al disturbance In
speech, all apparently duo to injuries sus-
thined In ono way or other 10 the Drain.
I These cnseH were Of tho most varied and
: curious sort, from that OF people unable te
utter any words al all, or, at best, able &C
calculate hut few stock phrnsoa, TO thost
I who scomed TO have lost simply certain
icttors or syllablos out OF words or wor'
unable to use in now combinations cortnit
lettors or syllables which tlicy ALREADY
made freq use OF In certain words. Bon
= jour monsiour," ono OF ilrooa' d paticnu
{, would say to him. But when Broca wouls
ask tho man to pronounce "bonbon" u
him tho word stuck 10 the roof OF hi
= mouth. He was spoeehless.
o Knowing these facts and knowing whn
= Gall tho founder OF modern phrenology
had said regarding tho locating Of varlou
, mental faculties In certain portions OF tn
brain, Brooa went 20 work both on tn
brain OF 10 Long and on tho brains o
" some other persons who had shown dc
rangemont in speech during life. The r.
J. suit was his famous theory. ~ have 10
&c Gated tho faculty OF speech, ho said. 81
q is In tho left hemisphere Of tho brain, Il
u the front part OF tho third conyoullOn.
9 IL was this part OF tho brain that h
Y found, in all his patients, either cate
~ away by disease or injured by iesions. o.
y this part OF tho left brain, he argues de
y pends therefore tho development OF Oh
- power Of nrticulate speech
o But Paris doctors arc skeptical lot
They wero not to DO persuaded so cnsil
that Broca, by means OF bis ny0 worde
man, had ''locntod' the faculty Of spconi
10 SO they oil got together, and In the FOL
N lowing two years held number Of autor
h. sics on persons who had suffered from dis
is turbance In spoech. They invited Broc
to nttond these autopscs. And In IA on
re of s cases it was discovered that tho par
It OF tho brain injured was just exactly whor
b. Brooa had said u was. II you look toda
10 into any good modern physiology, or pbyi
" biological psychology, you viii find there !
I'd tho diagrams OF tho brain u certain conyt
r luton marked "tho region OF BrOca. T"
But Is there really bump Of lar
IN Quageg Modern Psychologists and PSI
o. biologists, while ncospsing IN tho mai
W tho conclusions OF Broca, say No"
H. Professor Iindd Of Yalo Ia fond u usin
We some strong language on this point. II
TO says: sTho literal moaniny OF the stat
h. mants made ly Iiroca. such as shat thi
N. part OF tho brain is tho seat OF tho fncult
Of articuiatc language, 10 not simply II
appronrlatc to tha fact, 1t Is even absurt
There Is no ono faculty Of languaa
10, which can, In any possible meaning Of Il
ne word, be regarded as having It's sent, {
K locality combined to some particular rcgio
he Of tho brain. Speech involves, in o yea
~ complicated and largo way. all the fncu
n tics, strictly speaking; thon 10 cannot
ch located. With It's attendant operations
H. sell cdnsciousness, IN any one cerebral arci
II And yet oven Professor I.add has u pl
r. fure Of 'Ilroca's region" IN his big ps
IL oliology and agrees with the Paris docto
II that the acts seem 70 POINT to somo spool.
,re connection Of certain portions Of the bril
I'd with tho complex progresses involved In u
on terlng words,
ys So tho misfortusc that mudo life yalu
I'D loss to tho Ave worded man niade tho IL
,er wordcd man only tho more valuable
to science,
is "Thnro Is some soul Of gocdncfs nyoii
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