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Excerpt from The American Journal of Insanity, 1867-68, Vol. 24
I may add to this brief summary of the points brought out in the discussion of the subject, that Dr. Brown Sequard denies the amnesic theory of Trousseau; holding, as he expresses it, the deprivation of Speech to be a re?ex phenomenon -that a great variety of symptoms may be produced by a lesion of almost every part of the brain that the loss of speech is usually unaccompanied by any loss of movement in the tongue. The paralysis, in fact, is a paralysis of the organ of ex pression of ideas.
While these various questions at issue among the par ties to this discussion are still pending, let us turn our attention for a little to a point upon which they all seem to be agreed. And this, it seems to me, is rather underlying and primary. We must first have a clear faculty, before we can locate it on a healthy normal brain. We must have a distinct and definite function, to be disturbed or destroyed by the lesion more or less serious of the organ performing it. These writers all speak of the faculty of expression of ideas, and of its relation to a corresponding organ.
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