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On Aphasia or Loss of Speech in Cerebral Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Frederic Bateman*
Affiliation:
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital

Extract

From the brief summary I have given of the labours of the pathologists of the French school, it will be observed that the evidence deducible therefrom is of such a conflicting character as to leave quite unsettled the complex question of the localisation of the faculty of speech. The history of the continental contributions to the literature of aphasia would, however, be very incomplete, without a brief glance at the researches of the German and Dutch physiologists.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1868 

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