Index
THE EARLY HISTORY OF APHASIOLOGY
A section of the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus
Surgical papyrus of Edwin Smith (about 1700 B.C.)
Clay tablet with cuneiform script
King Mursilis (about 1275 B.C.): TIA with aphasia?
Corpus Hippocraticum (about 400 B.C.): The brain as the organ of mind
Corpus Hippocraticum (about 400 B.C.): Cerebral dominance for language?
Is it the heart or the brain?
Form and functions of the three cerebral ventricles according to Gregor Reisch (1504)
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The ventricular system
Antonio Guainerio: Opera Medica (1481)
Nicolo Massa: Epistolae Medicinales (1558)
Johann Schenck von Grafenberg: Observationes medicae de capite humano (1585)
Bonnet (1684): ‘prescription for apoplexie’
Bonnet (1684): ‘prescription for apoplexie’
Franz-Joseph Gall (1758-1828)
Location and function of the cerebral organs according to F.-J. Gall (1806)
Seat of ‘parental love’ according to Gall (1825)
The seats of ‘verbal memory’ and the ‘general faculty of language’ according to Spurzheim (1815)