1865

Broca, in debates at Paris Académie de Médicin, following on Bouillaud’s remarks on hand-brain-dominance, argued that specific localization was consistent with the two hemispheres supplementing each other in some measure, thereby “put[ting] forth ideas we associate with a much later stage of aphasiology, ideas about Gestalt, plasticity of the child’s brain, and speech therapy for the aphasic” (Schiller, 198). Debate followed report on posthumous Dax memoir, on whether aphemia (aphasia) on left-sided lesions of third frontal convolution only, per Broca (Schiller, 197ff.). Armand Trousseau, in the discussions, substituted “aphasia” for Broca’s “aphemia,” though what endured was the bastard term “Broca’s aphasia” (200).