On Aphasia, or Loss of Speech

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On Aphasia, or Loss of Speech

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Batemen, F. On aphasia, or loss of speech, and the localization of the faculty of articulate language. 1890

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"One of the first books dedicated exclusively to aphasia was published in 1879 by Frederic Bateman (1824-1904) [...] In Bateman's exemplarily systematic work altogether 72 cases (already published and his own) are discussed in order to clarify the question of localization of speech. [...] Bateman is the first to clearly propose that aphasia could be described in terms of syndromes and the probability that each individual with aphasia has a unique pattern of symptoms. A range of symptoms and features of aphasia are presented in detail and with examples by Bateman [...] The presentation is impressive from a modern perspective and only disorders of language comprehension and syntax are missing from his extensive surgery." (Juergen Tesak and Chris Code: "Milestones in the History of Aphasia. Theories and Protagonists", 2008, p. 63).

Publication Date

1890

Publisher

Churchill

City

London

Keywords

aphasia, speech loss

On Aphasia, or Loss of Speech

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