CHAP. XXIX.] SPEECH AND THOUGHT. 667 



there was in this case not so much a defect of the 

 Auditory Word- Centre, but rather something wrong with 

 a portion of the emissive channels leading from it. by 

 way of the Kinsesthetic Centres, to the motor centres 

 for Articulation whereby the activities of the Auditory 

 Word-Centre became (incoordinately) associated with Arti- 

 culatory Movements of the wrong kind. 



This defect was, therefore, in its relations to Speech, 

 very comparable with those existing in relation to Writing, 

 in the cases of Agraphia recorded by Dr. Jackson and 

 the writer, as given in the last section. The case was, 

 however, complicated by considerable Amnesic defects 

 of the incoordinate type, showing themselves both 

 in Speech and Writing, though more frequently in the 

 former. 



In another very remarkable case, carefully investigated 

 and recorded by Dr. Osborn,* the patient was able to 

 talk only in a meaningless jargon, and on attempting 

 to read aloud gave utterance also to a series of articulate 

 sounds having no intelligible meaning or resemblance to 

 those which he should have uttered. Some of the prin- 

 cipal particulars concerning this case are subjoined. 



A scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, twenty-six years of age, of 

 very considerable literary attainments, and well versed in French 

 Italian, and German, whilst sitting at breakfast, after having 

 bathed in a neighbouring lake, suddenly had an apoplectic fit. He 

 was reported to have become " sensible in about a fortnight," but, 

 although restored to the use of his intellect, he had the mortifica- 

 tion of finding himself deprived of speech. He spoke, but what he 

 said was quite unintelligible, although he laboured under no para- 

 lytic affliction, and uttered a variety of syllables with the greatest 

 apparent ease. When he came to Dublin his extraordinary jargDn 

 led to his being treated as a foreigner in the hotel where he stopped; 

 and when he went to the College to see a friend he was unable to 



* "Dublin Journ. of Med. and Chemical Science," vol. iv. p. 157. 



