Word: aphasia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which is on the left in a righthanded man like Ike (it would be on the right side in a lefthanded individual, since the two hemispheres of the brain control opposite sides of the body). What other consequences had resulted from the stroke? None, apparently, because, beyond this "mild aphasia" (literally, lack of utterance), Eisenhower's doctors could find no other symptoms. The President's blood pressure was good (130/80), his pulse 64 and regular; he "had no headache, nausea, vomiting, impairment of consciousness or breathing, convulsions, stiffness of the neck, paralysis or abnormal reflexes...
...write. But it left his remarkable mind unimpaired and isolated. Two years later a massive coronary occlusion brought him once more to the verge of death. In the brick row house on Rollins Street where he had spent nearly all his life, Mencken sank, fighting, into the twilight of aphasia. It was a cruel fate for a man of Mencken's measure, and in his anguish he rebelled against it. This week death finally came to Mencken...
Rotterdam, Veeridam (ah, but the crew is cranky), Grande Dame (the liner she's), Rooseveltdam, Hotdam, Goddamn. Aphasia, Valeteria (founded in 1926), Ablaut, Umlaut, Nein and Ja (freight only...
...wants a pen he will ask for "something to write with," though he can pick the right name out of a list. Nerve specialists have given this complaint a number of names; the University of Virginia's Dr. Cary Suter. who has studied it closely, likes "anomic aphasia" best...
...cases had been misdiagnosed or overlooked, said Dr. Suter, and he urged doctors to be on the watch for this complaint, because it is one of the few symptoms that may give a clue to the location of a brain tumor. But he had a hopeful note: anomic aphasia is much less common now that middle-ear infections are so readily controlled by sulfas and antibiotics. And anybody who fails to remember the name "anomic aphasia" for more than a few minutes need not worry about...