{"id":900015,"date":"2026-04-18T13:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/science-history-doctor-autopsies-the-brain-of-a-man-who-couldnt-speak-and-reveals-the-seat-of-spoken-language-april-18-1861\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:18:40","slug":"science-history-doctor-autopsies-the-brain-of-a-man-who-couldnt-speak-and-reveals-the-seat-of-spoken-language-april-18-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/science-history-doctor-autopsies-the-brain-of-a-man-who-couldnt-speak-and-reveals-the-seat-of-spoken-language-april-18-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Science history: Doctor autopsies the brain of a man who couldn&#8217;t speak \u2014 and reveals the seat of spoken language \u2014 April 18, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Dr. Paul Broca conducted an autopsy on a patient known as &#8220;Tan,&#8221; who had aphasia, or the inability to speak. Broca&#8217;s work identified a region of the brain that is key to spoken language&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/neuroscience\/science-history-doctor-autopsies-the-brain-of-a-man-who-couldnt-speak-and-reveals-the-seat-of-spoken-language-april-18-1861\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Blythe Klemp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Dr. Paul Broca conducted an autopsy on a patient known as &#8220;Tan,&#8221; who had aphasia, or the inability to speak. Broca&#8217;s work identified a region of the brain that is key to spoken language&#8230;Read MoreBlythe Klemp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1130,3421,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-900015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"category-science","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}