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On Agrammatism following Inflammation of the Brain [Ueber Agrammatismus als Folge von Herderkrankung] (Zeits. f Heilkunde, Heft 2, 1902.) Pick

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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In a reprint from this journal Professor Pick describes the case of a woman æt. 41 years, who after confinement showed symptoms of mental derangement. She was much excited and tore her clothes; speech was much disordered. When admitted to the clinique at Prague she was found to speak indistinctly, slurring over some consonants. The same deficiency was found in her writing, which scarcely recalled the words she was supposed to signify. She could understand reading, and what was said to her, though her intelligence was notably impaired. After a short stay in the hospital she was discharged, but was brought back eight months after in a much worse condition. In her writing, both to dictation and spontaneously, she only reproduced a few letters, though she copied correctly. There was paresis of the right side. The mental power went on diminishing, and the speech getting more unintelligible, till she died of pneumonia ten months after admission.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1903 

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