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case in full, because it seems to have escaped tlie attention 

 of writers on aphasia : 



" Some time after I had made the experiments which I 

 have just reported, a cavalryman of the garrison, aged thirty- 

 five years, was brought into our hospital. He had been 

 seized the day before with paralysis of the entire right side, 

 which had occurred after a slight pleurisy, from which he 

 had recovered ; he could move neither the arm, nor the right 

 leg, nor could he maintain himself in his seat. The lower 

 jaw was not distorted; he opened and closed the mouth 

 with facility. He could move the tongue only with a great 

 deal of difficulty, and could not protrude it from the mouth, 

 nor pronounce any word. 



" The right eye seemed dimmed, and its sight was en- 

 tirely lost, which I recognized, because, in presenting the 

 finger, or a stick, very near this eye, he made no movement 

 of the lid. But as soon as I touched the eye, he closed the 

 lid. When I presented the finger or a stick to the left eye, 

 he immediately closed it, though it was not touched. 



" He retained sensation on the paralyzed side as well as 

 on the sound side. 



" A month after he had entered the hospital, he moved 

 the tongue pretty easily, and even protruded it a little from 

 the mouth, but he could pronounce nothing but non. 



"He was attacked with scurvy fifteen days after, and 

 with abdominal flux, from which he died two months after 

 his entrance into the hospital, not being relieved by any 

 remedies. 



"His judgment was always perfectly normal during his 

 disease, and he had no convulsive movements. 



" After death I removed the brain and spinal cord. I be- 

 gan by dissecting the spinal cord, in which I found nothing 

 abnormal, nor in the right side of the brain. But I found 

 on the left side, the entire anterior protuberance which con- 

 tains the internal and superior corpora striata (corps canneles\ 

 the middle ,and the external or inferior, dissolved and con- 



