On Aphasia - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...and writing, hut the patient had forgotten her letters, and could not pick out an s or an n in a child's alphabet. This I believe to be an unusual condition, for in most cases the symbol representing a word is recognised when put before the patient; that is when, as in Sir T. Watson's case, the intelligence is unaffected. + De Font-Reaulx, op. cit. p. 57. REMARKABLE ECHO CASE; A HUMAN PARROT. Ill her thus, "Voulez vous manger?" She said, instantly, "Voulez vous manger?" I then said to her, "Quel age avez vous?" She replied, " Quel age avez vous?" I then said to her in English, " You are a bad woman." She instantly said, "You are a bad woman." I said, "Sprechen sie Deutsch?" She retorted, "Sprechen sie Deutsch?" In the words that she thus echoed, her articulation was distinct, although the foreign phrases were not repeated by her in quite so intelligible a manner as the French. Not only did this woman echo all that was said, but she imitated every gesture of those around her. One of the pupils made a grimace; she instantly distorted her facial lineaments in precisely the same manner; another pupil made the peculiar defiant action, common in schoolboys, of putting the thumb to the nose and extending all the fingers--called in French, pied de nez. The patient instantly imitated this elegant performance. Just as we were leaving her bedside, a patient in an adjoining bed coughed; the cough was instantly imitated by this human parrot! In fact, this singular old woman repeated everything that was said to her, whether in an interrogative form or not; and she imitated every act that was done before her, and that with the most extraordinary exactitude and precision. Dr. Winslow, under the...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153809524
- ISBN 13 9781153809528
- BindingPaperback
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