Vision Disorders

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 43 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; visual symptoms of psychogenic origin; head injury; dizziness; nausea; hyperalgesia; and infection. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, postmortem reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: coronary infarct; breathlessness; vision disorder; high blood pressure; incontinence; papilloedema; and chronic venous congestion. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 73 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: acoustic neuroma; vertigo; deafness; facial pain; numbness; gait disorder; unconsciousness; amnesia; vomiting; vision disorder; nystagmus; arteriosclerotis; and akinetic Parkinsonism. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: visual defect; arteriosclerosis; headaches; vomiting; head injury; unconsciousness; papilloedema; and vascular occlusive lesion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headaches; and vision disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 25 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: subarachnoid haemorrhage; nausea; dizziness; vomiting; headache; vision disorder; virus of central nervous system; and constipation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hemianopia; Foster-Kennedy syndrome; progressive loss of vision; and papilloedema. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: depression; homonymous hemianopia; head injury; headache; progressive loss of vision; and hypochondical. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: arteriovenous malformation; headaches; vision disorder; vomiting; speech disorder; retention; confusion; reading difficulties; and ataxia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes chart relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cervical spondylosis; gait disorder; vision disorder; haematuria; paresis; weakness; degenerative paraesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.