The physiological & pathological relations of the voice and speech / by John Syer Bristowe.

Date:
1880
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    io8 relations, so there is reason to believe that impressions made or revived in the sensory areae of the brain evoke through the corresponding motor areae special combi- nations of movements—I am bound to say that I recog- nise, if not literally, at any rate essentially, some such localisation of the several processes of speech as that represented in the accompanying diagram. MOUTH HAND Without binding myself to accept it in detail, I am inclined to think that this diagram, which is simplified from that furnished by Kussmaul in his article on ' Disturbances of Speech,' in Von Ziemssen's Cydopcedia, fairly well represents the conclusions that may be accepted provisionally in regard to the arrangement and connexions of the areas concerned in speech. He assumes, as will be seen, a sensory centre for