RT Journal
A1 HOISHOLT AW
T1 CUrrent ideas on aphasia with studies of an interesting case
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1909
FD June 1
VO III
IS 5
SP 451
OP 466
DO 10.1001/archinte.1909.00050160082006
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1909.00050160082006
AB HISTORY OF THE THEORY OF APHASIA 
    The first observations on the subject of aphasia were made by Bouillaud in 1825 and by Dax, senior, in 1836, but the fundamental understanding of speech-defects and of their origin in lesions of the brain-cortex is due to the studies of Broca, who formulated the results of his researches in a declaration made before the Academy of Medicine of Paris in 1861, in which he claimed to have shown that the center of speech is located in the third frontal convolution of the left hemisphere. Since Broca, in the early seventies, finally succeeded in overcoming all opposition to his doctrine, establishing that the location of the speech center in the right hemisphere is found only in left-handed persons, the cerebral location of the center of speech has been moved more and more laterally and posteriorly in the cortex. It is especially