Aphasia and Kindred Disorders of Speech

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I:
1. From the schoolmen to gall
2. Bouillaud to Broca
3. Hughlings Jackson
4. The diagram makers
5. Marie the iconoclast
6. Chaos
7. Historical retrospect
Part II: Introductory
1. Methods of examination
2. Clinical examples
3. The nature of the disturbances of function in aphasia and kindred disorders of speech
4. Diverse clinical manifestations assumed by these defects of symbolic formulation and expression
5. The effect produced by the degree of loss of function on the form assumed by an aphasia
6. The effect produced by disorders of symbolic formulation and expression on various forms of behaviour such as speaking, reading, writing and the use of numbers
7. Pictures, drawing, visual imagery and music
8. Summary statement of the results of clinical examination
Part III:
1. What is meant by localisation of function
2. The anatomical site of the lesion in some traumatic cases of aphasia
3. General conclusions and summary
Part IV:
1. Vigilance
2. Cerebral localisation
3. Language and thinking
4. Conclusions and summary.

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