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Brain 2006 129(6):1347-1350; doi:10.1093/brain/awl134
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On aphasia. By L. Lichtheim, MD, Professor of Medicine in the University of Berne. Brain 1885; 7: 433–484.

With his manifesto for disconnectionist modelling, first published in German (Über Aphasie. Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medicin 1885; 36: 204–268), Ludwig Lichtheim (1845–1928) added a third, classic, 19th century account of aphasiology to those already written by Paul Broca (Perte de la parole, ramollissement chronique et destruction partielle du lobe antérieur gauche. [Sur le siège de la faculté du langage.] Bulletin de la Societé d'Anthropologie de Paris. 1861; 2: 235–238) and Carl Wernicke (1848–1905: Der aphasische Symptomencomplex. Breslau, 1874). In 1885, Brain published a version in English of Lichtheim's paper, translated and somewhat condensed by the Editor, Armand de Watteville: ‘the whole task was by no means an easy one; the careful revision bestowed by Professor Lichtheim to the proofs, and for which I beg to return him my best thanks, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alastair Compston

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