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BROCA, Paul (1824-1880). Sur le sige de la facult du langage articul avec deux observations d'aphmie (perte de la parole). Reprinted from Bulletins de la Socit d'Anthropologie de Paris, 36 (1861). Paris: Victor Masson et fils, 1861.
8o (216 x 136 mm). (Very slight foxing to title and some text). Contemporary quarter red morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine.
FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Broca identified the third left frontal convolution of the brain as the center of articulate speech, based on the examination of an aphasic patient known as "Tan" (after the only syllable he could sound), thus confirming the conjectures of Bouillaud and Auburtin. Broca first presented his hypothesis in early 1861, and the article was printed in August of the same year, after further examination had revealed a lesion ("Broca's convolution") in the location predicted. The paper was an important stimulus to the theory of cerebral localization, although the precise position of the center of articulate speech is no longer believed to be exactly where Broca located it. VERY RARE. Garrison-Morton 1400 (journal article); Norman 345.
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FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Broca identified the third left frontal convolution of the brain as the center of articulate speech, based on the examination of an aphasic patient known as "Tan" (after the only syllable he could sound), thus confirming the conjectures of Bouillaud and Auburtin. Broca first presented his hypothesis in early 1861, and the article was printed in August of the same year, after further examination had revealed a lesion ("Broca's convolution") in the location predicted. The paper was an important stimulus to the theory of cerebral localization, although the precise position of the center of articulate speech is no longer believed to be exactly where Broca located it. VERY RARE. Garrison-Morton 1400 (journal article); Norman 345.