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express his wish to the gate-porter, and succeeded only by pointing 

 to the apartments which his friend had occnpied. 



Dr. Osborn, after frequent careful investigations, ascertained the 

 following particulars concerning his patient : — 



1. He perfectly comprehended every word said to him. 



2. He perfectly comprehended printed language. He continued 

 to read a newspaper every day; and when examined proved that 

 he had a very clear recollection of all that he read. Having pro- 

 cured a copy of Andral's ' Pathology ' in French, he read it with 

 great diligence, having lately intended to embrace the medical 

 profession. 



3. He expressed his ideas in writing with considerable fluency; 

 and when he failed it appeared to arise merely from confusion, and 

 not from inability, the words being orthographically correct, but 

 sometimes not in their proper places. 



4. His general mental power seemed unimpaired. He wrote 

 correctly answers to historical questions; he translated Latin sen- 

 tences a<}curately ; he added and subtracted numbers of different 

 denominations with uncommon readiness; he also played well at 

 the game of draughts. 



5. His power of repeating words after another person ivas 

 almost confined to certain monosyllables; and in repeating the 

 letters of the alphabet he could never pronounce h, q, u, v, iv, a?, 

 and z, although he often uttered these sounds in attempting to 

 pronounce the other letters. The letter i, also, he was very seldom 

 able to pronounce. 



6. In order to ascertain and place on record the peculiar imper- 

 fection of language which he exhibited. Dr. Osborn selected and 

 laid before him the following sentence from the bye-laws of the 

 College of Physicians, viz., " It shall he in the poivcr of the College 

 to examine or not examine any Licentiate previous to his admission 

 to a Fellowship, as they shall think fit. ^* 



Having set him to read, he read as follows: — ^' An the heivhat in 

 the temother of the trothotodoo to majorum or that emidrate eni 

 enihrastrai mestreit to Icetra totomhreidei to ra fromtreido as that 

 hehritest.'* The same passage was presented to him a few days 

 afterwards, and he then read it as follows: — "Bemather be in the 

 hondreit of the compestret to samtreis amtreit emtreido and tern- 

 treido mestreiterso to his eftreido turn bried rederiso of deid daf 

 drit des tresf' 



He generally knew that he spoke incorrectly, although he 



