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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER V
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In cases of violent sick headache we often miscall objects without detecting it ourselves, and in delirium the speech mechanism works from violent organic discharges altogether without control.

The senile old man talks nonsense--so-called gibberish--thinking he is discoursing properly.
In the main cases of Aphasia of distinct sensory and motor types psychological analysis is now so adequate and the anatomical localization so far advanced that the physicians have sufficient basis for their diagnosis, and make inferences looking toward treatment.
Many cases of tumour, of clot on the brain, of local pressure from the skull, and of haemorrhage or stopping up of the blood vessels in a limited area, have been cured through the indications given by the particular forms and degrees of aphasia shown by the patients.

The skull is opened at the place indicated by the defect of speech, the lesion found where the diagnosis suggested, and the cause removed.
This account of Localization will suggest to the reader the truth that there is no science of Phrenology.

No progress has been made in localizing the intelligence; and the view is now very general that the whole brain, with all its interchange of impulses from part to part, is involved in thinking.

As for locating particular emotions and qualities of temperament, it is quite absurd.


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