. Some points in the surgery of the brain and its membranes . I. A woman, aged forty years, became in a high degreeword blind after a cerebral seizure, though not letterblind. She could not name objects she recognised bysight and by touch. On one occasion she called thescissors what I sew with, and the purse what I buy. Fig. 49. Fig. 50. Fig. 49.—Diagram of the position in the cerebral cortex of the centres concernedin the mechanism of speech. (IVIills.) A, Auditory centre (centre for word hearing) ; V, visual centre (centre for word-seeing) 5 N, naming centre (centre where percepts are given
. Some points in the surgery of the brain and its membranes . I. A woman, aged forty years, became in a high degreeword blind after a cerebral seizure, though not letterblind. She could not name objects she recognised bysight and by touch. On one occasion she called thescissors what I sew with, and the purse what I buy. Fig. 49. Fig. 50. Fig. 49.—Diagram of the position in the cerebral cortex of the centres concernedin the mechanism of speech. (IVIills.) A, Auditory centre (centre for word hearing) ; V, visual centre (centre for word-seeing) 5 N, naming centre (centre where percepts are given a name) ; B, motor-speech centre (in Brocas convolution) ; G, graphic centre ; U, utterance centre. Fig. 50.—Tumour of the 3rcl temporal convolution, indicating the positionof the naming-centre. (Mills.)A, Densest, and probably oldest portion of the growth (the cortical limit of the lesionis indicated by the dotted lines) ; B, anterior limit of the lesion beneath the cortex. with. At the autopsy a tumour was found involvingthe third left temporal convolution (Mills). 2. Captain M., aged forty-four years, suffered sixweeks before I saw him with an inflamed throat, pain inthe left ear, and left otitis media. For ten days he hadhad pains in the head and vertigo. Pus could be seenoozing from a perforation in the
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