Epilepsy
Found in 4350 Collections and/or Records:
4.104 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, Epilepsy, September 1946
"This lad was MD, took "fits" badly had had chorea. Now working in the woods. Father a farmer. Mother about 53. Clean house, not overcrowded. They take an interest in outside affiars. Dr says he is feebleminded, can't read or write, takes fits which seem to be epileptic."
Sibling: 4.105
4.143 Male, Single, 55-64 yrs, Epilepsy, October 1946
"Occupation: Stonebreaker. Rate-aided patient. Diagnosis: Epilepsy with amentia. A lean, simple looking man with a slight external strabismus in his left eye. Shallow affect and little upset by his change from home. [Male informant] this man lived alone and got queerer and queerer."
42.12 Male, Married, 35-44 yrs, High grade mental defective, Epilepsy, March 1947
"Thought to have been in trouble with the police. Good worker but very lazy, just decides he won't go. Has moved about a lot. House not very clean. Discharged from the army for mental deficiency and went about boasting about it."
Relatives in survey: wife 42.11
42.26 Male, Married, 35-44 yrs, Dull and backward, Epilepsy, March 1947
"A big rough man with a fearful temper, unshaven and dirty. Had tried to drown himself. Has moved about a lot. Said to take fits. Dr - not bright mentally but a good worker, sub-normal."
Relatives in survey: wife 42.25, children 42.27, 42.28
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
44.24 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Epilepsy, July 1945
"He is an epileptic or at least "subject to fits of an epileptic character". Not defective. Now in merchant navy. His mother is a bedswerver, carries on with other men, doesn't get on with her husband and has wanted to leave him in the past. A lot of family quarrelling."
Relatives in survey: Mother 44.59 aunt 44.36
44.46 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Epilepsy, April 1945
"This girl is a fairly severe epileptic, is not well enough to work at present. Used to be a domestic servant."
Relatives in survey: Mother 44.44, sister 44.46
9.140 Female, Single, 25-34 yrs, Epilepsy, March 1944
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9.172 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Epilepsy, Physical illness or invalidism, April 1944
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9.181 Female, Single, 25-34 yrs, Epilepsy, March 1945
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