Divine Banquet of the Brain

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Collection of essays on such topics as: the evolution of man's capacity for language; the future of language; the neurology of psychotic speech; the detection of minimal dysphasia; the Broca-Dax controversy; the chronic aphasiac; drum-talk and whistle-speech; man's attitude to his nose; misoplegia or hatred of hemiplegia; self-portraiture; Miss Havisham Syndrome; tattooes; blindness; photisms; periodic hypersomnia and megaphagia in adolescent males; the training of a neurologist; five illustrious neuroluetics; medical commentary on Napoleon III and his son; Gordon Holmes; phrenology; etc.