DISINTEGRATION AND RESTORATION OF OPTIC RECOGNITION IN VISUAL AGNOSIA

Abstract

The complexity of the process of optic recognition is such that no two patients suffering from the disorder called visual agnosia have identical derangements in function. An analysis of the symptoms and their changes in the course of recovery in a young and cooperative patient appeared worthy of record for the further light such a study may shed on the process of visual perception. REPORT OF CASE H. C., aged 22, married, had been a guest at the Cocoanut Grove night club, Boston, on Nov. 28, 1942, the night it was destroyed by fire, with 491 patrons killed and many more injured. She was one of the 132 patients admitted to the Boston City Hospital during this night. On entry she had only small, superficial burns over the right scapula. It was immediately noticed that "she could not see." She was hoarse for almost two weeks, during which tracheal inflammation