ABSTRACT
In 1833, the Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science published a case report on a patient demonstrating a language disturbance characterized by strings of meaningless sounds. In that report, Dr. Jonathan Osborne described a 26-year-old university scholar, once proficient in French, Italian, and German, who had apparently suffered a stroke which left him with language that “caused him to be treated as a foreigner.” When asked to read the sentence,
It shall be in the power of the college to examine or not examine any licentiate, previously to his admission to a fellowship, as they shall think fit.
