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SPECIAL HOSPITALS FOR OFFICERS (Lord Knutsford's Committee)
No. 3 HOSPITAL - FOR ORGANIC NERVE CASES
EMPIRE HOSPITAL
VINCENT SQUARE
LONDON]
3.5.1917
Dear Major Scott-[indecipherable],
I am sorry I have been so long in writing you about Lt Ferguson. I wanted to get Dr Head's opinion of him & he saw him yesterday.
On going over him carefully it was evident that there was a large functional element in the motor & sensory paresis. What I think has happened is that the local concussion caused oedema of the cortex of the L. face & arm area – with consequent affection probably slight of these parts. As you know he carried on for some time after he was hit & that the severe paralysis of the Right side & the Aphasia came on fairly gradually during that time & was superadded on the organic effect. So the clinical picture that may have resulted from cortical injury (which is I think slight) is hidden by the functional paresis. The aphasia at all events now is not I think organic.
Dr Head has corroberated my diagnosis & the prognosis of course is very good.