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Show o Aphasia Aphasia Is lack of sput-ch. It may be due to a local trouyle, but is usually due to a disorder in some of the brain centers. Very often It is psychic or hysterical in its cause. It is this type of person who under great excitement suddenly sud-denly regains the power to speak. It may be due to a motor defect which makes it impossible to speak so that one can be understood. Sometimes, according to an authority author-ity in the Washington Star, the patient becomes unable to recall sounds. Aphasia may be due to an abscess or tumor on the brain, or a rupture of a blood vesseL It may be due to some form of paralysis or toxemia. |