Showing Records: 1 - 10 of 1949
3.23 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, Physical illness or invalidism, June 1947
"Meningitis 6 years ago, getting increasingly deaf since, but M[ental] D[efective] anyhow. Has minor fits - loses consciousness for a few minutes and becomes rigid. Associated with her periods. Does not get a proper wage but seem squite satisfied - working in the Convalescent Home. Sister, very timid, living with her. Parents dead? [Female informant] considered that there was an hysterical element in the family. Seen by PSW."
28.20 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, September 1946
"This man used to take fits, now all right. Farm worker. Sergeant confirms that he is a backward kind of character, unconscious looking. Dr say he is not epileptic, but has VDH. Very dull."
39.48 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Stammering, July 1947
"IQ 70, at Loreburn Street. Has a stammer, dull and backward, flares into tempers, left-handed. Thought to have had a fit."
Relatives in survey: Siblings 39.46, 39.47, 39.48 Mother 39.45
43.10 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Other organic psychoses, January 1946
"This child had a fit just before Christmas - was thought to have meningitis but didn't. Housing very good, clean, not overcrowded. Nurse says she was always a backward child, very slow to learn to speak. Dr confirms that she is subnormal. Her convulsive seizures at Christmas were probably hysterical - she had had too much excitement."
Relatives in survey: Father 43.11
PR2.5, 1940-1941
Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 63 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fits; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR3.8, 1940
Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male rifleman from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: fits; headaches; facial hypertonus; facial paresis; focal epilepsy; and focal lesion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR1.63, 1927-1958
Typed case summary, reports, photographs, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians), aged 25 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: lepto-meningitis; diplopia; seizures; and focal epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR1.64, 1927
Typed case summary, reports, photographs, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain, aged 42 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; spongioblastoma; seizures; headaches; hemiparesis; and hemianopia. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.
PR1.67, 1927-1965
Typed case summary, photographs, correspondence, nurses' report book, charts, tracer card, drawings, notes and reports relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 19 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; scoliosis; kyphosis; subdural haemorrhage; headaches; and seizures. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR1.72, 1927-1961
Typed case summary, nurses' report books, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 37 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: war injury; headache; concussion; seizures; epilepsy; hemiparesis; cranial cerebral injury; and neurasthenia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.