Aug. 21, 1885.] 



♦ KNOWLEDGE 



itliorb , auJ 

 ylhWps to 



irrelovxnt pioposations, or i meiL juml I 

 utteied ire moie likely to b(, issolii' ' 

 impairment of intellectual powei — 1( i 

 shoit upon mjuiies or alteied states ( f | 

 more speciilly concerned with such, nn 1 



Win&low mentions the casL of a m m n 

 attack of paril} sis, ti xnfeposed tliL I i 

 saymg tufJe foi flute, puc foi cup, ml 

 iSome ktteis maj always be substituttd foi 

 the sime -svith S3llables One of Ti 

 aphasi I duimg recovery utteied ccitar 

 ■nhich lit, ahva-ss tacked on ?jf m ^^ i 

 he pionounccd onlj tht, fiist i Miii_ 

 the second, a-> imnitij fui iti h i i ' 

 Mibtxkts m thb pionuncntim ml 

 letteis occur occxsionallj m (|uii !i 

 may 01 may not be recognist d 1\ ili 

 fatigued or inattentive to ^^]l^t J mi 

 qucntly made slips of the kiiul u li 

 ■ft hen I wmted sugar — arequLst t iK 

 I -n IS mxde ahve by a Hugh ^c iii_ i ii 



The other morning I was it i 1 1 1 1 \ I \ 

 papei when my bi other made s m i 

 case of robbery, to which I j u ul n I 

 the cheese is stolen, shut tht i !i mil i 

 which, as may be imagined ^\ i 

 meiiiment In cases like this tht f lu 

 lack of attention to the woids spoken 



volition, and -^vhen the -nill is engar,etl m legulitmg one 

 set of ideas it lb not always immedntth it hl)tit> to 

 turn to the consitleration of mother 1 i lin i i li i 



IS called ' a blown study, oi x fit I 

 thiukei maybe spoken to and mij n i i i 



minutes then he will xnswei as if he li . 1 nl j i i I i 1 

 the remaik The attention was letimed on the hist set 

 of itlexs until a natuial break came m thxt ti xm of thought 

 when it was turned to the other turn stxiteu lij the 

 spexker , on tl e other hand, a reply may be given at 

 random, as above, without the attention being distracted 

 fuinx the oiigmal tiain of ideas 



The exhaustion of fxtigue is proportionately great 

 iccoidmg as the will is more oi less exercised, and 

 this I think, accounts for the fxct that woids are 

 misused more fiequentlj duimg fiti^^ue, for it 



the peifnimii 

 Civentoth< 1 

 t(dd to 



'Whei 



t ma-\ bo found m 

 Attention implies 



the 1 



feet 



addiessed by his supeii 

 itam vessel Befoiehe 



In X nivxl battle i siilor 

 1 officer as to the position of 

 could reply, he was stiuck in 

 n med insensible for several 

 1 Englantl ind tiei)hmed. 

 iipleted, when the patient 

 I st uboxitl, sn ' ' 



possible to maintain attti 



ness, 01 delu mm sup( 

 essentixl part of sh e 



1 be 



nd ■ 



1 



certain point of 

 -ep, unconscious 

 of ^ ohtiou IS the 



DuiiM ill 11 I 1! 1 11 I itlention m sleep, words may 

 be sj I u I 1 I III ml |u stions answered with moie 

 01 ItssiiK mill |ii I I uliiiithe attention is otherwise 



A siunl 11 1 ul 111 u I iiiplete suspension of the will 

 txkes pi ice duim^ tlieelleets of narcotics or ana.sthetics 

 A tvi'ie il case of this uatuie occuried leccntly in the 

 pi xctice of my fiiend, Mr R Fitzioy Benham Before 



Hai V 



utten 111 1 



to thit qil. Hon put s,, 1,11^ x^o 



All tht se xnd similar cases of suspended attention hang 



togethei, the differences between thtm being only of 



d(^i , n t if kiiil The hi.,hei oi intellectual centres 



I 111 I I I 11 ilysed, any action which 



hum of the lower centres 



nxte purely in the loss of 

 occur m healthy persons, 

 en tlic tip of my tongue, 



1 1 ^ brain disease, is 



' illy parxlysed in 

 , 1 1 w IS almost lost on 

 I h nil, I litre (jood He 

 lititiu on Ajiiil 2 is thus 



objtet but cannot 



as ptoj 

 butle 



ul 'i 

 'The 



id 1 



t £,et it out 

 A case of this km 1 1 

 the follow lug -ecorde 1 1 i 



Case b —The pati i 

 the light side of his 1. 1 

 Maich 12, 1878, but (///;■ i 

 impioved slowly, and his cu 

 desciibed — "He lecognises 

 name them , repudiates a f xls 

 real one at once when he hexi 

 his own nxme till it is sue 

 as! ed to lepeat it (\nditws 





5 the 



co7, tl< 

 titJiu 



s it Can nevei lemember 

 gested to him On being 

 I after a few tiials, which 



iho 

 he pro- 

 He has 

 nuials 

 I im, the 

 He is 

 cannot 

 muddle. 

 » hau 



■I length 



NeitJier 

 uill 



old -v 





\erj blight little fellow I 

 Itnlmii) to every word lu -., . 

 syllable of words of more than i 

 when mentioning the gardeiiei'i 

 Bessie ; and rjardna for garden. 



J I sound 



Ditteii chaiacters, 



I ijw>tioti tirttten on a "late, though 



r to riipond when the same gnes- 



lally He, however, rtcognizes 



.'ne when tcrilten, and is consciouB 



lint placed in rcgnlnr order. - Hc-ctmnot 



, but seems to have some idea of their 



