University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: anxiety; paraesthesiae; multiple peripheral neuritis; tremor; and subacute combined cord affection. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: progressive spinal cord disease; paraesthesiae; neuritis; and spastic paraparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report, charts and correspondence relating to male fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 52at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: hypotonic limbs; paralysis; pulmonary collapse; polyneuritis; papilloedema; intracranial tension; spinal cord lesion; urine retention; myelitis; vascular anomaly; and degeneration of spinal cord. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: ?degeneration of the cord; ?peripheral neuritis; cholecystitis; shoulder pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, note, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: lesion of cervical spine; shoulder pain; muscle wasting; neuritis; radiculitis; noninfective neuropathy; pleurisy; paraesthesia; limb weakness; and brachialgia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 49 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; optic neuritis; cord lesion; osteorthritis; and paralysis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 73 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: spastcity of arms; ataxia; achlorhydria; sensory peripheral neuritis; and subacute combined degeneration spinal cord. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: degenerative condition of spinal cord; motor neurone disease; spasticity; amyotrophy; and fasciculations in arms. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, autopsy report and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: Landry's Paralysis; Apiol poisoning; unconsciousness; vomiting; clonic movements; hypertonus; ascending neuritis; and myelopathy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: cervical lesion; ?virus neuritis; shoulder pain; and paralysis of small muscles of right hand. No treatment given. Patient discharged.