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Epilepsy

 Subject

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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:

PR2.4691, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4691
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 15 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; dizziness; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.4692, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4692
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; unconsciousness; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.4693, 1946-1947

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4693
Scope and Contents

Charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: haemorrhage; unconsciousness; fits; epilepsy; venous thrombosis; hemiplegia; and facial palsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946-1947
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.4699, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4699
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: fits; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.4703, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4703
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; fits; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.4706, 1949

 Item
Identifier: LHB41 CC/2/PR2.4706
Scope and Contents Case summary relating to male clerk from south west Edinburgh aged 50 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, subject to epileptic fits, losing weight. No family history of...
Dates: 1949
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Victoria Dispensary, Hospital and Tuberculosis Trust case notes / Royal Victoria Dispensary for Diseases of the Chest case notes

PR2.4713, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4713
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: birth injury; convulsions; chorea; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.4717, 1946-1947

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4717
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 11 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946-1947
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.4724, 1946-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4724
Scope and Contents

Reports and correspondence relating to male patient and female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 and 17 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; and carbon monoxide poisoning. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946-1953
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.4733, 1943-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4733
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 12 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1946
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)