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...student, Eugene F. Suter, Jr., claims that he had "two hands and a head of his own," and wants to stand on his own feet...
...petition filed with Surrogate William T. Collins in a New York court, Suter contended that he is a member of the Young Peoples Socialist League, and does not want the money for "moral and political reasons...
Perhaps ignorant of the Yale Daily News' stand and in defiance of Suter's wishes, lawyers for the will's trustees and for his relatives stoutly contended that the Eli senior has no right to renounce the money...
...trouble is not actually a loss of memory, says Dr. Suter in the A.M.A. Journal, but a defect in the part of the brain which governs associations between objects and the words which stand for them. This seems to be a specific region on the dominant (usually the left) side of the brain. It may have been damaged by a stroke, or by hardening of the cerebral arteries. In such cases, nothing can be done. But almost as often, Dr. Suter found in a series of 20 patients, the forgetting of names is caused by a tumor in this Association...
Four-fifths of his 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...