BBCNEWS Witness History June 4, 2024 01:48:00
Auguste. what is your husband's name? auguste, i think. she looks as if she didn't understand the question. i show her a pencil, a pen, a purse, key, diary and cigar are identified correctly. when she has to write "mrs auguste d", she writes "mrs...", and we must repeat the other words, because she forgets them. the patient is not able to progress in writing, and repeats, "i have lost myself". she lived very, very long — about five years, or even more — was kept very long in the hospital, and when she died, the brain had been examined immediately after her death. alzheimer did many, many s...