Epilepsy

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: fits; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: focal epilepsy; seizures; cerebral birth injury; personality change; dysrhythmia; and clonic movements. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, report and chart relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: cryptogenic epilepsy; seizures; unsteadiness of gait; ataxia; and progressive degenerative cerebral disease. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and reports relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: post-traumatic epilepsy; fits; head injury; gunshot wound; and intracranial pressure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; head injury; gunshot wound; and headaches. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 16 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; smallpox; and developmental problems. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 6 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: petit mal; seizures; head injury; and developmental problems. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: thrombosis of pregnancy; pontine tumour; fits; vision disorders; epilepsy; hemiparesis; eclampsia; hysteria; and headaches. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and report relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 24 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: cryptogenic epilepsy; seizures; weakness; and headache. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, autopsy report and reports relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: mental deterioration; psychosis; cerebral atrophy; hypertension; epilepsy; fits; dysrhythmia; cortical lesions; and haemorrhage. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.