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Epilepsy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure), (2) etiology (e.g., post-traumatic), (3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure), (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns (e.g., nocturnal epilepsy).,Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4350 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.21352, 1959-1961

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.21352
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959-1961

PR2.21358, 1959-1963

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.21358
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 26 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; blurry vision; slurred speech; and unconsciousness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959-1963

Public Relations Committee, 1963-1972

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/F.7
Scope and Contents

Material relating to the Public Relations Committee of the Scottish Epilepsy Association, Edinburgh and South East Scotland Branch, 1963-1972. Norman Dott was very active in his efforts to publicise the work of the Epilepsy Society. The material consists of many of Dott's manuscript notes of ideas for publicity in addition to correspondence, committee papers, minutes and brochures.

Dates: 1963-1972

Regional Development Sub-Committee, 1968-1973

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/F.8
Scope and Contents

Material relating to the Regional Development Sub-Committee of the Scottish Epilepsy Association, Edinburgh and South East Scotland Branch, 1968-1973. The material consists of committee papers; press-cuttings, a typescript draft of pamphlet, and circulars (prepared by Norman Dott).

Dates: 1968-1973

Remedy for tinneas tuiteamas [epilepsy] and accompanying story, 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/336
Scope and Contents

Remedy for tinneas tuiteamas or epilepsy in which a cockerel is buried alive with its feet tied together and three sixpences and a cairn built over the top. Says that girls from 2, Glen Street, Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] say that they saw this done in Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ròs is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty], and that a hole was dug but nettles grew there every year despite tilling the ground.

Dates: 1887

'Some Aspects of the Problem of Epilepsy', 1968-1969

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.94
Scope and Contents

Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Some Aspects of the Problem of Epilepsy'. The material consists of the typescript of the address by Dott to the joint staff meeting of medical officers and health visitors, Edinburgh Health and Social Services Department, dated 9 April 1969 and correspondence, dated 1968-1969.

Dates: 1968-1969

The Friends of the Epilepsy Society of Edinburgh, 1964-1968

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/F.10
Scope and Contents

Material relating to the The Friends of the Epilepsy Society of Edinburgh, 1964-1968. The material consists of manuscript notes for speeches by Norman Dott to the Association and a message for the financial appeal, 1965.

Dates: 1964-1968

'The role of the voluntary organisations', July 1973

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.95A
Scope and Contents

Address by Norman Dott, 'The role of the voluntary organisations'. The address was given at the Plenary Session of the Hans Berger Centenary Symposium on Epilepsy, Edinburgh, dated July 1973.

Dates: July 1973

'The surgical treatment of epilepsy', September 1968

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.260
Scope and Contents

Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The surgical treatment of epilepsy'. The paper was delivered at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Toronto, dated September 1968. The material includes figures and an addendum to a paper by Theodore Rasmussen.

Dates: September 1968

Thomas Inglis: “Hystero-Epilepsy”, 1878

 Piece
Identifier: LHB7/14/2/15
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Bound volume of pamphlets and articles by staff from the Royal Edinburgh Asylum.

Dates: 1878