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In 1881, Carl Wernicke first described an illness that consisted of paralysis of eye movements, ataxia, and mental confusion, in 3 patients. The patients, 2 males with alcoholism and a female with persistent vomiting following sulfuric acid ingestion, exhibited these findings, developed coma, and eventually died.
1 Wernicke aphasia: The eponymous term for receptive or sensory aphasia. 2  It is the inability to understand speech, or to produce meaningful speech, caused by lesions to the posterior superior temporal gyrus.