Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2242

SIR HENRY HEAD (1861-1940) Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech. The University Press 1926 Vol. I: xiv [2] 549 pp., 14 illus.; Vol. II: xxxiii, 430 pp., 16 illus. 24 cm.

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Head had become interested in aphasia as a medical student in 1886 when he first studied the disorder in an elderly woman at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He continued his studies and research, acknowledging the inspiration he received from reading Hughlings Jackson's (see No. 2001) papers on the subject. Head had had Jackson's papers reprinted in Brain in 1915 because of their importance. Head opens this "most important work on the subject in the English language" (Garrison-Morton 4633) with an extensive historical review of aphasia and several other disorders of speech. After a comprehensive discussion of the major speech disorders, Head devotes Volume II to a series of case histories and clinical reports which illustrate one or more aspects of the disorders discussed in Volume I.

See Related Record(s): 2001

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4633