Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital de Clínicas, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Neurological Diseases Group, Graduate Program of Internal Medicine, Hospital de Clínicas, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Brain. 2021 Dec 31;144(12):3547-3549. doi: 10.1093/brain/awab400.
Language and its associated disorders have puzzled humanity since the dawn of civilization. The first descriptions of aphasia go back to classical antiquity. The Egyptians and Babylonians believed speech was a divine gift to mortals, and their descriptions of aphasia attributed these events to their Gods' anger and disfavour. The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus and the Hippocratic Corpus report several aphasia cases, relating this phenomenology to apoplexy, epilepsy, and other illnesses.
语言及其相关障碍自文明起源以来一直困扰着人类。对失语症的最早描述可以追溯到古典时代。古埃及人和巴比伦人认为言语是神赐予凡人的礼物,他们对失语症的描述将这些事件归因于神的愤怒和不满。《埃德文·史密斯外科纸草文稿》和《希波克拉底文集》报告了几个失语症病例,将这种现象学与中风、癫痫和其他疾病联系起来。