Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: “If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, …; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; …; thou shouldst say concerning him, ‘One having a wound in his temple, … (and) he is speechless’.

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