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Aphasia or Loss of Speech in Cerebral Disease
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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Having in my last paper noticed the different forms in which loss or lesion of the Faculty of Articulate Language is met with by the clinical observer, I now propose to consider the various causes which give rise to this morbid symptom.
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